Sandra Schwab has received two B’s here at AAR, and the blurb to Bewitched spoke of a klutzy witch having a London Season and falling in love with a rake. It sounded like fun, but all the fun to be had was contained within the three page prologue. It went downhill from there. Amelia Bourne…
In A Man Worth Keeping, Molly O’Keefe creates a solid story of a woman in peril and the man who helps her find her inner strength. I adore damsels in distress, and heroes to the rescue are among my favorite premises. This one might not be perfect, but the book is certainly worth the time…
My husband does most of the cooking in our house. He loves to cook, to invent, and to nurture his family through the meals he creates. He’s also keenly aware of the role nutrition plays in health, which dovetails quite nicely since he is of the “everything in moderation” school. We use real butter in…
For the most part, A Knight’s Vow is an inoffensive Medieval. I know that may seem an odd thing to say, but that is what I was thinking during most of the book: “Well, it’s a bit dull, but at least I’m not offended.” Too many near misses between the hero and heroine, though, moved…
My husband gave me the rare opportunity of picking out a book for him to read before we went on a recent trip. Naturally I chose a book I thought he’d like, but one that I’d not yet read myself, so I could borrow it from him. Just as naturally, I got to it before…
Though the story is interesting, I struggled to get into the setting of Allison Chase’s newest. For me, it was one of those books that I started, put down, picked up again, read a few pages, picked up something else to read, and then finally forced myself to finish. I discovered that even though the…
Immortal is rather a hard book to pigeon hole. The title suggests vampires, but it’s not a novel of the paranormal, unless you count the fact that the protagonist ages abnormally slowly, over the course of centuries instead of years. If pressed I would say this is historical fiction because so much of the book…
After reading a number of glowing online reviews of Grimspace by Ann Aguirre, I got curious. I love SF romances and space opera, and this sounded like an interesting novel. Things started off compelling enough, but I lost all interest in the characters’ fate after the first third and grew to despise the hero during…
Jane Austen has turned detective, so have Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde (courtesy to Stephanie Barron, William J. Palmer and Gyles Brandreth, respectively). Why not Charlotte Brontë? The author of The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë, Laura Joh Rowland, is best known for the Sano Ichiro mysteries set in 17th century Japan, so this novel…
I enjoyed reading the first third of Margaret Moore’s Knave’s Honor, the third book in her King John series, but after a promising start, the story fell victim to the Saggy Middle Syndrome. The story begins with plenty of action: As Lizette d’Averette, a young heiress, returns from a wedding, a large group of rogue…
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