I own more than one cat nightshirt. I am not above putting outfits on my own kitty and forcing him to pose. Put these facts together and it’s obvious that my tolerance for cat sap is, as you can tell, incredibly high. Still, even starting from my extreme level of Cat Lady-dom, I found the…
Margaret Maron’s Deborah Knott mystery series has been rather uneven for me. Unfortunately, the latest entry is not one of the better books in the series. Deborah is a judge in a formerly rural part of North Carolina that is now one of the fastest growing in the U.S.. In this latest book, Deborah’s fellow…
When I was a child, a friend’s mother decided that we had insufficient exposure to “culture” and she set out to remedy this deficiency. We spent many Saturday mornings being marched off to well-intentioned poetry readings, lectures, and art openings in my hometown. I remember endless cheaply tiled rooms filled with beige furniture. Works were…
I usually enjoy a good football or sports romance and, though this one started out strong, by the end I got bored wading through all the sex. Needless to say, I wanted just a little more substance with all that other stuff. Melissa McKnight is her father’s daughter who wants to be a sports agent…
A couple of times a year, I read a book that so epitomizes a certain adjective that it could be reviewed in a single word. Promises Reveal is one of those books, and the mot juste is “convoluted”. I will, of course, extend the review beyond my single word and explain why. I’ll start by…
I’ve enjoyed Jennifer Ashley’s historical romances, as well as the historical novel she wrote as part of the Laurien Gardner team. When this versatile author turned her hand to the paranormal Immortals series, I knew I would have to read it. Immortals: The Redeeming is a steamy romance and, while I had my quibbles with…
I never thought someone might attempt to make me feel guilty about giving birth in a hospital, but reading Holding the Baby made me feel like I was getting a lecture on New Age philosophy and going all natural. Leah Williams, a midwife who attends women in at-home births in a small Colorado town, is…
Always looking for that hero I can’t help but love (or lust after), I saw immediately that Ash Keller of The Matchmaker fit that bill. Happily reading along, I was confident the hero alone, who epitomized the perfect contemporary hero (and melted my very bones), would earn this book a B grade at the very…
While looking over the new romance books at my local store, my eye fell on one titled Marry Christmas. “Ick,” I thought, “what a terrible title for a book!” But because the majority of historical romances have titles that are either terrible or forgettable, I forged ahead, particularly since I liked The Perfect Wife, another…
One of the weaknesses of the romance genre is its tendency toward recycled plots – secret babies and Big Misunderstandings being two major examples. For this reason, good stories need a freshness to make them stand out. Unfortunately, The Scarlet Spy by Andrea Pickens lacked in this regard. An orphan raised by prostitutes, Sofia is…
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