There are few things I appreciate more than a well-written, alternate reality romance that doesn’t need much back-story and isn’t too complicated. Darkness Unknown is the fifth installment in Alexis Morgan’s Paladin series, but it functions as a stand-alone and avoids unnecessary data dumps. Gwen Mosely dropped out of college to return to the family…
I find few enough romances set in colonial times or during the Revolution, so finding a book not only taking place during the Revolutionary War, but also set against the western frontier battles completely surprised me. As I flipped through Jamie Carie’s Wind Dancer and saw that it dealt with the campaigns of George Rogers…
Tempting Fate is Alissa Johnson’s second book and has one of my favorite storylines: the childhood friends to lovers relationship. Though I had a few problems with it, I liked it well enough to order Johnson’s first book, As Luck Would Have It. Whittaker Cole, the Earl of Thurston, and Mirabelle Browning have known –…
Lone Star Surrender had the potential to be interesting, with an intriguing plot, and a hero and heroine with dark pasts. Unfortunately, the plot, and any relationship development between the hero and heroine take a back seat to sex. Constantine Vega has spent the last three years undercover, gathering information on a dangerous drug lord….
I really learned something from this book. If I ever acquire a strange fae-mark in the shape of a rose, signifying that any wish I vocalize will come true, and I then have an urge to wish for “a Highlander of my own,” I am going to be more specific. Rather than vaguely wishing for…
I like adventure stories. Sometimes, however, I want something gentle, sentimental, and sweet. In The Marshal Takes a Bride, Renee Ryan introduces readers to the residents of Charity House, an orphanage set up to care for the children of Denver prostitutes. Though the story gets a little too sweet every now and then, it’s still…
I should start right out by saying if you’re looking for a steamy story, this may not be for you. I am very glad to say that 22 Nights is not, as the title and cover suggest, a treatise on 22 very long nights of kinky, purple prose sex. Instead, I was pleased to discover…
In my mind, Madeline Hunter stands for excellence in Medieval romance first and foremost. I faithfully (and a bit unenthusiastically) followed her through her subsequent Regency-set Seducer series, all the while debating if she should remain on my auto-buy list. Then along came the Rothwell series and from its first installment, Rules of Seduction to…
It is not without great regret that I give Second Chance Pass an average grade. I, too, was one of the legions who discovered Robyn Carr with her phenomenal Virgin River series. I enjoyed the first four books immensely and looked forward to the next installment. Yet, I was never hooked in and even found…
Poor Emma Cheney! She is much too sweet and unassuming a girl to be saddled with such dreadful writing. Even worse, her hero, Peter, played her like a fiddle. All she wanted was to see a mummy and do a little drawing and she ends up exhausted, confused and used. The pity I felt for…
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