I’ve always had a soft spot for Christmas anthologies. I enjoy anthologies and short series romances in general as a change of pace from the single titles, but the best Christmas anthologies often have an extra dose of emotion that makes the stories extra special for me. I enjoyed all of the stories in The…
Elizabeth Hoyt has earned seven DIKs at AAR. Sometimes it sucks to buck the trend, but you do what you must. And in this particular case, this book is really, really good. But it isn’t great. After his regiment was massacred in North America and following seven years of Indian captivity, Reynaud St. Aubyn, heir…
I’ve heard good things about Kathryn Smith’s historicals, so when I saw she’d returned to them after a paranormal sojourn I thought, why not? Here is why not. Picture this: You’re a gently bred 23-year-old Victorian maiden re-entering the ton after mourning to make a suitable marriage. You’ve been in love with your family friend…
Normally I love a good romance rekindled theme. I’m big on second chances and I like seeing lovers have another go at working out their relationship. In the case of The Earl Claims his Wife, though, the compromises seemed a bit one-sided and I had a hard time wanting to see this couple get back…
In paranormal romance, I’ve been noticing a phenomenon similar to that seen in Regency historicals for years. There are just gazillions of series out there. We can’t follow them all, so how does an author write a series and make it stand out enough that people will actually want to keep up with it? Jessa…
Caroline is the only one who knows that her husband, a well respected psychoanalyst to the elite, is actually a psychopath. In fear for her life, she eventually flees, running off to a small town in Colorado. Under the name of Alice Stevens, she gets a job as a live-in housekeeper for an older woman…
Confession first: I’m not crazy about the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it either. The first fifty pages of Covet seemed to bear out all the reasons I’d checked out of the BDB. The punctuation idiosyncrasies. The super slow setup. The martyred heroine. And the mean-ass heroes who,…
I Can Make You Love Me is the story of a single mother in her early-forties, and the younger man who is determined to win her heart. It’s a pleasant, but ultimately average read. Real estate attorney Adam Carlyle has never forgotten Wynn Evans, his childhood babysitter and first crush. After Wynn went off to…
Next Comes Love is a surprising complex story about a woman on the run who finds a safe haven on a small Wisconsin island. It sounds like a common enough plot-line, but the characters have an unusual depth to them – especially for a series romance. The love story takes a bit of a back…
Here’s my biggest reaction to this one: A publisher is actually charging $14.00 for this? Seriously? The final installment in the Pack of St. James trilogy is a generic (and completely forgettable) shape shifter romance that takes place in a wallpaper historical setting so broad-brushed that the only way I can tell it’s supposedly the…
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