Always the Bridesmaid really tries to pack a lot into a little book. There’s a wedding (the heroine’s best friend), a hero and heroine with complicated childhoods, and current challenges to overcome. None of this is bad, but it’s way too much for a book with fewer than 180 pages. Amy Edler is a baker….
Games Girls Play consists of three novellas featuring the three women from The Marcus Group, a PR firm specializing in working with pro athletes. It’s an erotic book, very much so, but I didn’t find much romance in it at all.
Occasionally I need to realign my perspective of romance novels, rather like shoving my glasses up my nose. Realistically, as long as I’m entertained and my eyes aren’t rolling around in their sockets for four hours straight, the book counts as a decent read. Dangerous Games almost fits the bill, but not quite. It is…
Lately I’ve been very hesitant to pick up a romantic suspense novel because the last several I’ve read have been pretty bad. Usually it’s due to a TSTL Damsel in Distress heroine paired with a macho alpha male and a poorly written suspense plot. I was so pleasantly surprised, then, to discover a real gem…
Everyone is writing paranormals these days. Patti O’Shea, according to her backlist, has written nothing but and I’d be lying if I didn’t say I wish she would stop and turn to straight contemporaries. The world delineated in Edge of Dawn, one of magic and secret parallel worlds and dragons mages in present-day Seattle, is…
Forbidden Nights With a Vampire is the sometimes funny, sometimes poignant tale of Vanda Barkowski, a vampire who has a problem with her temper. I read Kerrelyn Sparks’s first book in this series, How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire, but not the others, something I plan to remedy as soon as possible – I really…
Someone Like You is the first novel by Janice Kay Johnson I have ever read. Although I found it extremely well-written for the most part, some elements seriously annoyed me, which led me to lower the grade. Lucy Peterson owns and cooks for a café in her small hometown of Middleton. A special guest is…
Joy Nash is one of those treasures I discovered while reviewing for AAR. Although she usually favors the paranormal when writing her romances, her first contemporary has only the slightest whiff of the mystical. It is basically, much to my delight, thoroughly character-driven and features genuine lead characters who are simply remarkable despite all their…
If the character is written well, the advantage to a downtrodden heroine is that I feel genuinely glad when her fortunes take a permanent upturn, but if she’s too downtrodden, she apes the hearthrug. And if the hero is doing a lot of the trodding, then I can’t help feeling she could have done better…
I found Rescue Me, to be a gripping romantic suspense, with a strong emphasis on the relationship between the hero and heroine. Although Devon Winters grew up among the privileged of Washington, D.C., she had a horrible childhood with an almost unbelievably cruel mother. One constant in her young life was her love for Jordan…
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