Can’t Say No, third in Bette Ford’s Prescott family series, is one of those books I’d never have finished had I not been assigned it for review. With a heroine who is too stubborn to live, an annoying focus on the hero – and his family’s – wealth, and an over-abundance of lust-thought from both…
I’m a sucker for romantic suspense involving archaeological and historical treasures and Samantha Graves’ Out of Time, featuring lost antiquities in Mexico, fit the bill. It also provided me with a good read that kept me guessing. Simon Bonner just returned home from what he hopes is his last job as a tomb raider. His…
Tara Taylor Quinn’s Trusting Ryan begins with a storyline I like: An older woman and a younger man fall in love. The scenario does not happen so rarely in real life as it does in romanceland, and I am always glad to pick up a romance with this setup. Although the story starts beautifully, for…
Millionaire takes heroine on the trip of her life, traveling the world and showing her unique sights she never would have discovered on her own. As fantasy scenarios go, this one would be right at the top of my list. I’ve been all over the U.S., but I long for international travel, and thus far…
There are two reviews of this book Shifter is that rare anthology that features no disasters; each of the four short stories involving shapeshifters are above average. Unfortunately, none really rise all that far above average. One is more memorable, but the remaining three don’t linger in the mind much past the book’s final page.
I have a weakness for books featuring firefighter heroes, so when I saw Trial By Fire on the shelf at Wal-Mart, I thought I’d give it a try. This is the beginning of a series about the firefighters of station five in a small town in Tennessee. It’s a fast moving tale but I can’t…
Say what you will about Stephanie Laurens, but you always know what to expect when you pick up one of her books. And while I have been known to bemoan the sameness of her “formula,” I cannot deny that sometimes I am just in the mood for a Stephanie Laurens. Sometimes I want to read…
Angela Knight’s Master of Wolves is part of her Mageverse series, and though I’ve been collecting it for a while, it’s actually only the second title in the series I’ve read. Unfortunately, I determined rather late that as far as “monsters” go, I prefer werewolves to vampires, which is why I’ve not gotten to most…
It’s always a risk when an author goes against the grain of romance novel conventions. Sometimes it pays off in spades, but other times it falls flat. Unfortunately, the heroine of Faceless by Debra Webb fell in the second category for me. Deputy District Attorney Carson Tanner has long been haunted by the brutal murder…
What would happen if you could suddenly appear in one of your favorite novels? That’s the interesting premise of Seducing Mr. Darcy, a mix of chick lit, time travel, and alternate reality. Unfortunately, a weak hero left me with mixed feelings about the book. Flip, our heroine, is a research ornithologist at a university in…
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