Pam Rosenthal burst on the scene in 2003 with Almost a Gentleman, a genre-bustin’ winner. Though it’s been downhill ever since, the good news is that The Edge of Impropriety is certainly better than her last two, but nowhere in the same league as her first. On the keeping the news positive front, her prose…
For some reason, stores putting up Christmas decorations months too early annoys me. However, the Christmas romance anthologies can’t come fast enough. When I got Snowy Night With a Stranger, I happily sank myself into a very strong collection of stories. One of my auto-buy authors delivered a strong entry while I discovered another author…
Red Fire begins a new series featuring Leonidas and seven of his fellow Spartans. After their deaths at Thermopylae they were offered immortality by Ares the god of war if they would serve as a force to fight against the evils that plague mankind. The premise is great – the execution, though is not so…
I have to sympathize with the author of this book a bit. Serial killer novels have been so overdone in recent years that it must be very hard to come up with one that stands out. Dead Stop makes a valiant try and features a heroine I genuinely liked. However, the story itself and, more…
Initially, I thought It Happened One Night was a Christmas anthology. It isn’t. Though the cover is snowy, the four stories each take place during a different season of the year. The premise of the book is quite fun and original: Each story has the same basic plot elements. All concern couples who get stuck…
Like No Other Lover combines some of my favorite elements of romance to create a story that at times had me laughing to the point of tears and, at others, had me tearing up in sympathy. The beautiful, yet vulnerable heroine, the scientist hero, a flying marble appendage, and lovely storytelling make it a truly…
Unleashed begins with a sex scene that is supposed to be hot and torrid, but to me was more funny than anything else. Next comes a huge infodump, then things are off and running. Literally. It’s been a long time since I read a Blaze title, but if this is an example of the line,…
I almost didn’t select The Wedding Heiress for review as I was afraid it was going to be another marriage of convenience in order to win an inheritance book. Fortunately, I was wrong, and the book proved to be a generally light, somewhat enjoyable read. Delaney McBride’s wealthy aunt recently died and left a convoluted…
Double Enchantment is second in a series concerning Merlin’s Relics. While I didn’t read the first book, there was enough background info on the Relics for me to catch on quickly. While the story is one of the cutest things I’ve read in a while, there were a few major flaws that kept nagging at…
I think that Claudia Gray’s new young adult vampire series can’t help but be compared to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. Unfortunately, there were a couple of details that were too similar for comfort, but that’s pretty much where the likeness ends. And actually, those initial similarities were one reason I wanted to read this book…
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