I didn’t realize that Kasey Michael’s Mischief 24/7 was the third in her series featuring the Sunshine sisters. If I had, I wouldn’t have picked it for review, which would have been a shame, as I enjoyed this story of a second chance at love. Jade Sunshine is a private detective who, until recently, worked…
True Confessions time: When I was in high school/early college, I loved Scottish romances. More precisely, I loved bad Scottish romances. They were full of “ochs,” “ayes,” “dinna,” “canna,” and “doesna”, and there were all manner of strapping, virile heroes and dainty but feisty lassies. As I studied history in college and learned more about…
Before Twilight, there was L. J. Smith’s The Vampire Diaries series. This was the original “teen vampire” series, published during the wave of YA horror novels. Harper has reissued the original four books in two omnibuses, and a new hardback in the series came out in 2009.
Night’s Rose is one heck of a book. Fortunately, I mean that in a generally good way – the main character is definitely chock-full of personality, and there are plot twists galore. As a fan of the original, gorier fairy tales, this version of the events after Sleeping Beauty awakens appealed to me immensely. However,…
Sex alone does not make for a solid romance and, unfortunately, good sexual tension will only take you so far. Bad sexual tension takes me nowhere whatsoever. Maverick features a couple who have great sex, but there is no possible way I can picture a happily ever after for them, something I find necessary in…
The Spy Who Wants Me is the third release in The Goddard Project series featuring covert operatives for a secret government agency. I didn’t read book two, but I remember the first book, Satisfaction Guaranteed, being a much more enjoyable read than this latest installment. Elle Gray is a covert agent for black ops group…
When a Stranger Loves Me reminds me of the 80’s romances in the worst possible way. Stupid main characters do idiotic things, and the author expects us as readers to swallow this and consider it deeply romantic. Throw in all my most hated romance clichés and an ending tied with a beautifully ornate bow and…
Fans of humorous vampire romances, please make welcome Molly Harper whose debut Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs is the first in a series about Jane Jameson, a former librarian, now a vampire in a small Kentucky town. <!– var browName = navigator.appName; var SiteID = 1; var ZoneID = 4; var browDateTime = (new Date()).getTime();…
I haven’t read an inspirational in years, mostly because the only inspirational I had read was drearily conservative and written in such a cheesy and sentimental way that it put me off the subgenre altogether. So it was with some trepidation I approached Ruby’s Slippers by Leanna Ellis, which is both an inspirational and a…
Tangled Up in Love is the first book in a trilogy about women who knit, amusingly titled “Chicks with Sticks.” While in general this story was enjoyable, there was a major plot point that I disagreed with that prevents me from recommending it. Veronica (Ronnie) Chasen and Dylan Stone are rival columnists at two different…
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