Every now and again I’m in the mood for a quick, breezy read and a well-written series romance fills the bill quite nicely. The Desert Prince’s Proposal is a delightful fairy tale, and does a near perfect job of whisking one away from the everyday. Bria Green grew up in wealthy Australian society, but she…
Like many – maybe even most – romance novels, Highland Rogue is middle of the road. It has some fun parts, some boring parts, some aspects that work and some that do not. Basically, it’s your classic C read. In 1711 Scotland, Quinn McIntyre is a highwayman looking for revenge. The Duke of Montrose killed…
I love science fiction romances, so when I was offered the opportunity to review Susan Grant’s Moonstruck, the first volume in her new Borderlands series, I was delighted. I have not yet read (although I plan to) her last trilogy, to which this book is a sequel, but you needn’t do so in order to…
The Trouble with Moonlight had a silly set-up with very little follow-through, and a relationship that was all follow-through and very little set-up. The result is a lot of wheel-spinning alternating with great leaps that left me shaking my head. The females in Lusinda Havershaw’s family are Nevidimi, women with “special gifts.” Lusinda’s gift is…
Let’s start off with the good news: Joanna Bourne clearly isn’t a Oneder. (Insert sigh of relief here.) The slightly less good news? My Lord and Spymaster isn’t quite as blow-me-totally-out-of-the-water terrific as The Spymaster’s Lady, but it’s a very, very good historical romance featuring complex and flawed characters far out of the typical wallpaper…
I had a big, big, big problem with this book: I simply never connected with the author’s writing style. I found it distracting, uninvolving and – from this reader’s point of view – a total failure. Here’s the deal: Wendy Markham (a pseudonym of Wendi Corsi Staub) writes everything in the present tense. It goes…
A couple of years ago I read, and loved, Christine Warren’s She’s No Faerie Princess. After finishing her latest, however, I have a strong contender for one slot in my ballot for AAR’s 2008 Annual Reader’s Poll. Unfortunately, that slot is Most Disappointing read. This latest entry in The Others series started out with an…
Saying Yes to the Millionaire is light, slight, and insubstantial as a puff of cloud. It is charming though, and the plot (which concerns a treasure hunt over London) was like candy to an anglophile like me. Fern Chambers likes her life on an even keel. She doesn’t like excitement, she doesn’t like danger, and…
The rather implausible premise of Jewel is mitigated somewhat by the chemistry between the main characters, and the level of detailed historical information on the black press in America. The Marriage of Convenience is my favorite plotline; I have seen many variations on the theme, but even for all that, this one is highly unlikely….
Though the Immortals After Dark series is classified as paranormal, I’d say Dark Desires After Dusk seems more like fantasy to me, which is fast becoming my favorite sub-genre. Along with the usual vampires and werewolves, you’ve got demons, Valkyrie, sorcerers, witches, phantoms, zombies, and other interesting characters in an alternate world called The Lore…
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