I assumed that Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ newest would be an A or A- read for me, or at worst, a B+. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that way. While in the end there were a number of things I liked about the book, I’ll be honest: If not reading it for review, I would have…
The writing team of C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp are no strangers to world-building and intriguing urban fantasy. In Magic’s Design, the first title released under the Cat Adams name, they create an intricate world partly rooted in folklore, as well as having magical qualities all its own. A modern-day woman with a healing gift…
I picked up A View to a Kiss by Caroline Linden because I was expecting something like James Bond in the Regency. I like the dry humor of the (old) James Bond movies, and this sounded like it could be a fun read. Harry Sinclair is a working spy, not simply an aristocrat taking off…
One thing I enjoy about Harlequin Presents novels is their exotic (well, exotic to me) settings. One thing I don’t particularly like is that the heroes tend to be arrogant. There’s a fine line between sexy alpha and sexist jerk, and it’s one they often cross. Such is the case with The Boss’s Bedroom Agenda….
When I started reading A Perfect Darkness, the opening novel in a series about The Offspring (please tell me I’m not the only person who started hearing rock lyrics in their head after reading that name), the author had my instant attention. Computer genius heroine who lives life as an outsider with odd paranormal gifts,…
There are conversations that you have so many times that they almost cease to have meaning. My husband can hold forth for some time on Why Colorado Drivers Don’t Know How To Merge. One of my counterparts is surely Why, For The Love Of God, Are So Many Romances Set In Small Towns? I’ve whined…
Shattered is another in JoAnn Ross’s High Risk series featuring members of the Navy SEALS and Special Forces. It features great characters and a hero and heroine with some of the best chemistry since Brad and Angelina, but the story has some pacing problems. Shane Garrett really wanted to be a Blue Angel, but a…
Flirting With Temptation has a different take on the Big Misunderstanding: It happened six months before the book begins. This could have been interesting if the hero and heroine had met again at the beginning of the book. Unfortunately, the two don’t reconnect for nearly 100 pages, leading to a very slow start. Babette and…
When it comes to romantic suspense, I like to be surprised – but not so surprised that I feel stupid for missing something, or thinking that a particular revelation doesn’t make sense with the story. The ending of Susan Crandall’s Seeing Red certainly wasn’t what I was expecting, and I liked that. However, I think…
Susan Wiggs is continuing her Lakeshore Chronicles, set in the small-Upstate New York town of Avalon with her newest story, Fireside. It’s a solid addition to the series that revisits a number of favorite characters. Bo Crutcher is an unlikely major league rookie, but at 30, he’s been drafted to play for the Yankees. It…
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