The September Sisters is YA Fiction of the grim realistic variety. It’s the story of what happens in a family after a child goes missing. Specifically, what happens to the child who is left behind. Abigail Reed goes to sleep one summer night after a fight with her sister Becky, and when she wakes up…
It worked. It really, really worked. Royce Varisey, aka Dalziel, mega-spymaster, has just become the tenth Duke of Wolverstone. His involvement in espionage 16 years ago estranged him from his father, but they are on the brink of reconciliation when his father dies. Now, having spent so many years away from society and Wolverstone, his…
Sometimes we love books because they push the envelope and stretch the boundaries of our imagination, taking us places we would never think of going on our own. Just as often, though, readers fall in love with books because they are “comfort reads,” taking a familiar formula and telling the story in a fresh voice….
Faeries Gone Wild is a collection of stories about faeries and the love they find and some unusual circumstances these faeries find themselves in. Overall, the stories are cute, with some being better than others.
I have read all of Linda Howard’s books and up until a few years ago, I read them for her heroes, who with a few exceptions are alpha men of the best kind. However, lately I have been enjoying her heroines more. They are no longer the doormats of some of her earlier books (like…
This book has got it all: an adventure that keeps you turning the pages, an irresistible hero, and a smoking romance. I wish there was a little less chasing around and a little more talking, but nothing can detract from the fact that Stolen Heat is one fun read. Katherine Meyer is a graduate student…
My roommate asked me the other day if I liked murder mysteries. I told her I did, as long as there were good characters. Though I initially despaired of making a connection with the characters of Say Goodbye, things eventually picked up to make a well crafted, if disturbing, mystery. Kimberly Quincy is an FBI…
Kimberly Van Meter writes contemporary romances set in the fictional small town of Emmett’s Hill, in the California Sierra Nevadas. And it’s the first small town I’ve read about in recent history in which the residents look out for each other, but in which they are really nasty towards the outsider. No absolute hearts of…
I first read The Trouble with J.J. nearly ten years ago. This time around, I had an audio version for review. Although some of the cultural references are a bit dated, they don’t stop the reissue from being a thoroughly enjoyable read. Genna Hastings has just returned from a lousy vacation when some neighborhood boys…
Sometimes, it helps not to take books (romance or otherwise) too seriously. Despite a host of problems I closed Wickedly Ever After with a smile on my face, and that counts for a lot. But that is not to say that the book doesn’t have its problems. If 80% of historicals have mediocre set-ups and…
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