Sometimes low expectations can really work in your favor. I wasn’t really expecting much of a book called What a Pirate Desires, because let’s face it: The title is awful. The good news is that the book itself is quite good. It has interesting characters, a compelling and believable conflict, and a romantic, shipboard setting….
As the days grow shorter, and Christmas lights are put up everywhere, I find myself browsing through holiday romances in the bookstores and online. Harlequin very reliably produces one Regency Christmas anthology each year, and as One Candlelit Christmas features a story by a favorite author of mine, Julia Justiss, the book was soon bought,…
Though I don’t really generally care for shapeshifter romances, dragon romances appeal to me because they’re often mythical, somewhat animalistic, and incredibly sensual. The Dragon Master combines all these elements with unique characters to make an interesting tale. Working on her MBA and building up her family’s restaurant business doesn’t leave Carol Juan much time…
The word I would use to describe Kathleen Morgan’s Christmas inspirational romance, One Perfect Gift, is “thin.” It’s a hardcover book, but a most slender volume – only 152 pages of real story; which doesn’t leave a whole lot of page space for either romantic plot or Christmas message. What you end up getting is…
For probably the millionth time, I just have to say that I am thrilled to see so many new historical fiction releases on shelves these days. I certainly hope this trend in publishing continues. Though I read nonfiction history, there is something about fiction that helps me to understand history better or at least to…
Lord of Shadows is a mass of contradictions. The plot of the story is certainly exciting enough, and the characters are well-fleshed. Yet the heroine bugged me, and the writing often felt awkward enough to pull me out of the book. Ultimately, I couldn’t help but feel just a little disappointed. Devlin Carmichael, Marquess of…
I’ll admit it. The main reason that I wanted to read the first book in Lori Handeland’s new series had to do with the title. Any Given Doomsday certainly beats the title-ing socks off The Alsatian Tycoon’s Latest Acquisition, Banging the Baron or other similar imagination-deficient titles that run together in my mind when I…
A Dead Bore is anything but. The second installment in Sheri Cobb South’s John Pickett mysteries is a sweet story filled with humor, emotion and endearing characters. Julia, Lady Fieldhurst needs to escape London for a while in wake of the scandal of her newly dead husband (see: In Milady’s Chamber). She accepts an invitation…
Math and I were never the best of friends, but, nevertheless, (and probably to amuse myself – something I desperately needed) I found myself thinking in mathematical terms as I read this book. Here goes: The flimsiest of premises + the most pedestrian and unimaginative of executions = no reason I can think of to…
I’m nearly always up for Scottish-paranormal-lite; as long as there are no icky vampires, I’ll give it a try, and I have a fairly high tolerance for silliness. So I thought maybe I’d like Tall, Dark, and Kilted. It’s a ghost romance, featuring a hero who is doomed to pleasure a different woman every night…
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