The issues I had with Lucky in Love were fourfold: the plot, the characters, the writing, and the chemistry. The plot is beyond contrived, I didn’t like or respect the characters, the writing gave me a headache, and as for the chemistry? There was none. Milli Torres comes to Oklahoma to spend the summer helping…
Just to let you know: It was really, really close. Sophia Hathaway is a spoiled, selfish, pampered heiress to social-climbing parents. At the beginning of the book she has abandoned her aristocratic fiance at the altar and, with her art supplies in one trunk and four dresses in another, she boards a ship for the…
With a gorgeous title like The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, it’s tough for an author to really deliver. So while the book had promise and was no particular hardship to read, I found myself vaguely disappointed by the story and its characters. There are so many bits of lovely mythology, Gothic sensibilities…
Just to make it clear: Alex Bledsoe’s The Sword-Edged Blonde is not a romance. Instead it is a mixture between a hardboiled detective story and a sword-and-sorcery fantasy novel, with a lot of sword and very little sorcery. The hero, Eddie LaCrosse, gets a happy ending of sorts, or rather a happy new beginning –…
Hot Pursuit is a bit of a departure for Brockmann. The Troubleshooters series has always had plots within plots and storylines that take several books to resolve, but this is the first I’ve read that doesn’t resolve anyone’s romance. That’s not to say that there aren’t romantic moments; however, no one new gets a happy…
With the buzz surrounding Leslie Parrish and her Black CATs series, I couldn’t wait to pick up Black at Heart. In the suspense department, I got exactly what I wanted and expected. Unfortunately, the romance elements fell short of the mark. Wyatt Blackstone, the head of an elite FBI team that solves Internet related crimes,…
It isn’t often that I read American historical romance, much less set in the 20th century. Dorothy Garlock’s The Moon Looked Down offers a somewhat refreshing change of scenery for me, to early 1940s Illinois. Sophie Heller and her family immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1933, suspecting from the beginning that their…
Sandra Brown knows what she’s doing, all right. Despite an implausible – very implausible – key plot point, she had me with this one. She really had me. Wealthy Atlanta businessman Paul Wheeler is shot to death by a masked gunman in a hotel elevator with Julie Rutledge, his much younger companion, by his side….
The demise of the Regency has left a hole that some authors have attempted to fill. One of these is Mary Blayney and, though I have great hopes for her, I think I’ll have to wait for the next book before shouting Hallelujah to the skies. The Duke of Meryon has been widowed for a…
When I came across a (semi-)affordable copy of Joanna Bourne’s Her Ladyship’s Companion online, I found myself unable to resist. When else do you get a chance to read an early book by an acclaimed new author, published 25 years before her current releases and yet is a sequel to the present series, with two…
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