Sara Bennett used to write Medievals, some of which got good-ish grades here early on. I thought I’d check out one of her Victorian historicals to see if it had any promise. Frankly, my reactions were all over the map. The book veered from silly, to surprisingly interesting, to outright bizarre. It wasn’t a total…
Bending the Rules is the second in Susan Andersen’s trilogy about three school friends. These three are fixing up an old mansion full of treasures that was left to them by Miss Agnes, the wealthy and eccentric matron who befriended them when they were young. Jane Kaplinski’s story was told in Cutting Loose and this…
I don’t think there is a single paranormal series as well-planned, well-written, and downright fantabulous as Ms. Singh’s Psy-Changeling series. Mercy is a female sentinel of the DarkRiver leopard pack and, as the book begins, she is sick of all her mated friends making googly-eyes at each other. She feels left out, hasn’t had sex…
Every once in a while, I’ll encounter a book that has elements I normally avoid but, for one reason or another, it’s one I can’t put down. This is exactly how I felt about Ice. If you allow yourself to actually think in depth about what’s going on, it’s gruesome and traumatic. However, if you…
If Nora Roberts were beginning her career today, a book like Black Hills wouldn’t be anywhere near enough to move her out of the pack. Still, for fans and those looking for a reliable read, there are pleasures to be found here. The book begins with 11 year-old Cooper Sullivan’s “sentence” to spend the summer…
Everywhere She Turns is a complex mystery featuring a young woman who goes back to her hometown to investigate her sister’s death. However, this book was muddled and the hero and heroine never, not once, came alive for me. CJ Patterson and her sister Shelley grew up in Huntsville, Alabama in a bad neighborhood. Their…
Much has been written about the formulaic nature of many historical romances published by Avon and I’m not going to add to the pile ‘o stuff already out there. Still, it is impossible not to make a reference to the publisher when the first Avon novel by Gaelen Foley, an author previously known for her…
Knight of Desire is a solid first book. The plot had great promise, which wasn’t quite executed to the most of its potential, mainly because of the annoying hero. The rest of the characters are all appealing and memorable, including Jamie, a (surprise, surprise!) three-year old boy. On the eve before her wedding, a young…
I read about half of Meredith Duran’s debut novel, The Duke of Shadows, last year. Somehow, the book just didn’t hit me right, but I thought the author showed promise and her choice of setting was very interesting. So when I saw this one while perusing the books-for-review list, I decided to give her another…
I am very sure that if I had read the previous books in the series, I would have gotten a lot more out of Dirty Sexy Knitting. There were times I felt like an outsider at a big family reunion. Even so, I did enjoy the book even though I know there were nuances I…
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