The final installment in Susan Mallery’s Keyes sisters trilogy, provides redemption for Jesse, the family bad girl. Despite her checkered past, I found her to be a likable, interesting heroine. Five years have passed since Jesse – pregnant and broke – left Seattle after being wrongly accused of having sex with her sister Nicole’s then-husband…
I and bought Live and Yearn because I absolutely hated what I was reading, couldn’t get through it, and wanted to read something(anything!) else. I enjoyed the other book I read in St. John’s series about a family of mediums, so this seemed like a good diversion. Happily, it did the trick. It’s not brilliant;…
I listen to a lot of audiobooks and have read mysteries for years, so Karin Slaughter’s Martin Misunderstood, an original audio novella, seemed perfect. It wasn’t. Martin is an obese 36-year-old who lives with his mother. Bullied all his life by his mother and his peers, he’s now bullied by his co-workers at Southern Toilet…
I’ve heard good things before about Eva Ibbotson, and I am partial to tales set during World War II, so I thought The Dragonfly Pool looked like fun. For the most part it was. Tally Hamilton is a special girl, the kind who likes to help, who cares for others, and who sees what could…
I will just start with the few elements I actually liked about Veronica Wolff’s Sword of the Highlands: the Scots setting, the nicely bad villain (though I did have a problem with his comeuppance), and the escape sequence near the end. However, I had issues with the hero, the heroine, the plot, the romance, the…
Though I have not read the earlier books in the League of the Blade series, I had no problem sinking right into the author’s (who was previously published as Gayle Callen) Secrets of the Knight. This tale of a Bladeswoman determined to prove her worth and find a place for herself entertains quite well. Historical…
With a title like this, I knew this book wasn’t going to be the next Dr. Zhivago. I looked forward to a light, funny story that would leave me in a good mood, but after reading this book, I couldn’t help but feel that it was actually too over-the-top and calculated in its pandemonium. The…
As someone new to Molly O’Keefe’s Mitchells of Riverview Inn series, I had problems with this as a stand-alone. Jonah Closky’s mother left his father and younger brothers while she was pregnant with Jonah. Now, 30 years later, she is developing a relationship with the two brothers and the father (apparently featured in earlier books)…
I haven’t read that many great romantic suspense books lately, but this story certainly met my craving for a romantic, compelling suspense tale. Grant Kent is on his way to a new security job after leaving the army when he gets a strange call from a former foster sibling, Isabelle Carson. He’s always cared for…
For a book billed as the first in a new trilogy, there’s an awful lot of back story in this novel. That’s all fine if the author finds a way to integrate the past story into a novel’s current action, which is, sadly, not the case here. Instead, in Show No Mercy author Cindy Gerard…
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