Duchess by Night is the third installment of James’s Desperate Duchesses series. It features a simple country duchess who crashes a scandalous house party dressed as a man. I enjoyed settling down with this charming historical and I hope to see much more of James’s witty style. As the story begins, our heroine, Harriet, Duchess…
I found as I considered Sweet Talk for this review that the author could have done a lot of things wrong in this story since it features a relatively safe plot. However, she managed to create a sweet story with real characters and real situations. Claire Keyes was a child prodigy. After an astonishing first…
The Iron Hunt is the first book in a new urban fantasy series, but it is also the sequel to Liu’s contribution to the Wild Thing anthology (Hunter Kiss, which earned an A- grade from an AAR colleague). I highly recommend picking up the anthology, as this is not a stand-alone novel by any means….
Enticing the Earl opens with maidservants gossiping about the rakish Earl of Sutton, and I was somewhat hopeful, as I have not come across an engaging rake for some time. Shortly thereafter, Lauryn, the widowed heroine, learns that her father-in-law has lost everything in a card game, and I thought, “great, a variation on the…
Wrath, Rhage, Zsadist, Butch, and Vishous – each had his big romance featured in his own book detailing his devotion to his mate. Through it all, readers have come to know and love each of them both separately and as a loyal member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Now it’s time for Phury’s book –…
In The Cat, Jean Johnson builds upon the world created in her earlier Sons of Destiny books and delivers the tale of the fifth of the eight brothers creating the kingdom of Nightfall. Though Johnson’s world-building is unique and shows promise, the characters feel a little hackneyed and the result is a rather ordinary paranormal…
I’ve been a Meg Cabot fan for years and was very excited to be reviewing Queen of Babble Gets Hitched, the third in her trilogy featuring vintage clothing maven Lizzie Nichols. It’s a good book, but it doesn’t fit in with the previous two and left me wondering if I’d missed something colossal. (A word…
As a fan of Rachel Lee’s Conard County series, I was excited to see a new entry at long last. At her best, Lee creates very sympathetic (and often tortured) characters, and very tender relationships. Unfortunately, A Soldier’s Homecoming is nowhere near the best that this author is capable of writing. Though glimmers of her…
In real life, it’s not usually all that funny when someone’s intellectual prowess is seriously lacking. Say, for example, you find yourself explaining to someone that Montana is not part of Wyoming (as previously believed) but is in fact a separate state. Yes, this happened to me, and the details are more depressing than amusing….
When an author who’s previously written some great books has a new release, I begin it feeling not only a strong sense of giddy-“oh, boy!”-ness, but also with a sense of trepidation. What if, this time around, the author fails me? That sense was pretty strong when I read the cover jacket for Mary Alice…
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