Gordath Wood is a hard book to catagorize. While not a romance, it has romantic elements, while also featuring elements of fantasy, horse stories, and all manner of adventure. Though the back cover copy is extremely misleading, the story follows the adventures of an ensemble cast of characters as they deal with the mysterious portal…
Occasionally, I can’t concentrate on a full-length romance novel, and that’s when I grab an anthology. In addition, they are a great place for testing unknown authors and have introduced me to several authors whose works I now collect. Autumn always brings an flood of anthologies with a Christmas theme, and the first that caught…
I expected to like Lani Diane Rich’s new one since The Fortune Quilt received my vote for best chick lit of 2007. Unfortunately, Wish You Were Here did not live up to my expectations, and instead, left me confused regarding her intentions. Nate Brody’s life isn’t going the way he’d like. Instead of working as…
Crossfire is part of JoAnn Ross’s High Risk series, but all the books in the series stand alone. Fans of romantic suspense featuring former military men will certainly enjoy this book – I know I did. When a high ranking Army officer is shot in the driveway of his lover’s home, one might think a…
I know I’m getting cranky, but, gee, would it be too much to ask to actually expect a flippin’ story in a romance novel? I mean, how many 50-page sex scenes can you take? This one is yet another in Christine Warren’s The Others series featuring (let me know if you’ve heard this one before)…
For a while there, I thought I had a very interesting read when I began The Bride Price, but alas, after a simply fantastic opening, terrible confusion set in. I never bonded with the characters, and closed the book feeling quite disappointed. In his youth, the Duke of Grandien belonged to a group of wild…
It feels like it’s been a while since I reviewed a solid contemporary romance. So many of those I’ve read lately felt lacking in some way, even if I enjoyed them. However, Romeo Romeo filled that void, reminding me of all the best things about the genre. Rosalie Ronaldi is a woman focused on her…
In the past eight weeks or so I have devoured all six of Julia Spencer-Fleming’s Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mysteries. I was hooked from the very first book by the chemistry between the pair as well as the author’s strong writing and solid plotting. I Shall Not Want is the most recent look into…
A Rather Curious Engagement picks up where A Rather Lovely Inheritance left off by following the further adventures of Penny and Jeremy, with stops in the French Riviera, London, Lake Como, and Corsica. While I didn’t enjoy this quite as much as the first book, I found it to be an enjoyable read in a…
I’ve been on and off Kelley Armstrong for a while and now it’s official: I am off. S-o-o-o-o-o off. This one, the latest in what’s turning out to be the interminable Women of the Otherworld series, is a textbook example of how not to engage a reader. You take multiple stories and every few pages…
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