Elizabeth Bevarly’s Ready and Willing is another one of her books set in Louisville around the time of the Kentucky Derby. This time, our heroine is a designer hat maker, one of those cool jobs that I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen outside of romance novels. Audrey Magill is surprised when she stumbles upon a…
Though based on a solid plot idea, The Warlord’s Bride is one of those books that just doesn’t live up to its potential. There’s no other way to say it: It’s relentlessly mediocre. Lady Roslynn is a traitor’s widow and King John’s pawn. Her tenuous circumstances leave her little choice but to travel to Wales…
No Words Alone is a futuristic that’s a lot of fun. In the end, however, it only served to reminded me why I usually like science fiction more than most futuristic romances. Sure, it was enjoyable to read, but issues big and small kept nagging at me. Most of all, for all the futuristic trappings,…
When my kids were younger, I’d take them to the bookstore and tell them they could get a book – as long as it wasn’t a “gimmick book.” That meant anything that came with stickers, light-up buttons, figurines, cars, etc. You know, the ones they want because they want the toy, not the book. Some…
Mortal Temptations begins a new paranormal romance series. Wait, don’t yawn – the heroes are not the usual vampires or werewolves that have been populating Romanceland in the past couple of years. Instead, they are demi-gods who have fallen prey to the wrath of Hera. When Patricia Lake finds a handsome winged man unconscious in…
I should have written this review immediately upon finishing Take No Prisoners, the second book in Gerard’s new Black Ops Inc. series. Two weeks later and after all the holiday festivities, I need to flip through the book to remember all the details. That should tell you a bit about this very average romantic suspense…
With the demise of the traditional Regency romance, several authors have opted to write longer, meatier historicals. After publishing several trads, and, in the interim, short stories, Mary Blayney now makes the switch with a double feature, the first two novels in a series about a ducal family issued in one volume. If these two…
I had little hope for Gemma Bruce’s The Man for Me. An early heavy petting scene led me to believe that the book would be all about sex, with little plot or character development. Happily, I was wrong. This is a wonderful romance between a compelling hero and heroine and between the heroine and baseball….
I enjoy demon romances, but every once in a while the world of fantasy can be a little hard to follow and can also cross boundaries with which I am not comfortable. Eve Silver’s Demon’s Hunger does both of those things. Dr. Vivian Cairn, a professor of anthropology, goes on sabbatical when she begins to…
If I hadn’t needed to write a review for it, I probably wouldn’t have finished Tempt the Devil, Anna Campbell’s latest. Though it improves markedly from the first few chapters as it went on, it still has a number of flaws. Olivia Raines is London’s most famous courtesan. For that reason alone, Julian, Earl of…
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