As I was reading this book, a line from The Magnificent Seven kept popping into my head. The bandit king asks the cowboys why they defended the Mexican village and Steve McQueen says he asked the same thing of a guy who jumped out of a rolling train into a cactus. “And?” asks the bandit…
It’s funny. Recently I found myself wondering where all the good Medievals had gone. I find the occasional winner at Harlequin, but it’s been ages since I’ve read a good, meaty Medieval historical. And then, as soon as I wished it, one landed in my review pile. If you’ve been looking for a strong Medieval…
Favorite Romance Audiobooks Poll Winner (Wins are actually for the In Death series): 2nd place Favorite Romance Audiobook Hero Tied – Favorite Romance Audiobook series Favorite Romance Audiobook Heroine 2nd place Favorite Romance Audiobook Couple Favorite Fantasy or Sci Fi Romance Audiobook Narrated by Susan Ericksen Another recent audio hit for me was Naked in…
Take Me Two Times is the second installment in Karen Kendall’s ARTemis series, about a group of art repossession agents. It was enjoyable enough to make me want to read the first book, but the problems I encountered left me unable to heartily recommend it. Gwen Davies is a former interior designer who’s just starting…
Mariah Stewart was a completely new author for me, and as I read Mercy Street, the first novel in a new series by her, I was delighted to find it a very pleasant read. The novel begins with Robert Magellan, a dot-com multimillionaire whose wife and infant son disappeared more than a year ago. His…
At the risk of sounding like a total bitch and reaping mounds of wrath, I’ll just say it: It’s books like this that make a mockery of the romance genre. Henrietta’s guardians are cursed: they just keep dying. Now she’s left to the last one on her father’s will, the Duke of Blakewell, and turns…
After a streak of dull books, it’s refreshing to find one that I didn’t want to tear myself away from, while at the same time not wanting it to end. White Star, the second in the Warlands trilogy, is just such a book. Vaughan’s combination of Medieval characteristics, magic and sorcery, and interesting characters, draws…
I finished Julia London’s Highland Scandal on a Friday, and started this review the following Monday. When I sat down to write, I realized the details of the story were surprisingly fuzzy in my mind, and I had to go back and refresh my memory; all I could really remember is that I mostly enjoyed…
Burning Wild features ultra-alpha, ultra-rich, ultra-macho hero Jake Bannaconni who can shapeshift into a leopard. This is a sequel to Wild Rain which got a very good review here. As for this book…..well, sorry, but I didn’t like it. Ryan and Cathy Bannaconni hated their son Jake at first sight. They married, not for love,…
When I think dark, angsty heroes, Anne Stuart’s name comes to mind first. She’s created some of the darkest alpha heroes I’ve ever come across and, while I probably wouldn’t like some of them in real life, I lap them up in fiction. In Silver Falls, she tells a very eerie tale about a serial…
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