For me, Meg Cabot is a compulsively, addictively readable author. I can’t seem to resist her books, whatever genre they are, whatever audience they are written for. Fortunately, she writes at a steady pace so there is always something new from her on the shelf. Queen of Babble in the Big City is the newest…
With her debut Warlands trilogy, Elizabeth Vaughan established herself as an author capable of balancing good fantasy world-building with romance. It was a mix that worked perfectly for me and was well done throughout the three books. Given that, I expected good things from her new novel set in the same world (though in a…
Midnight Rising is the fourth installment of the Adrian’s Midnight Breed series. The plot immediately drew me in and I liked its thoroughly tortured hero, Rio. Because the action is light, the hero and heroine – and their relationship – got the attention they deserved. Although not all great, this was a fun read overall….
It’s no big secret that Elizabeth Jennings is Lisa Marie Rice. Pursuit is her first book under this pen name and it’s a good one – a very good one. As good as it is, though, it falls short when it comes to the book’s hero, Matt Sanders. Robert Haine is the CEO of Court…
In Kindred Spirits a Regency Miss is charged with saving the life of Lord Braddock by the ghost of his ancestor. An interesting premise, but my interest waned with the introduction of some very odd paranormal elements and an obtuse hero. China Nethercott is returning to her home in Yorkshire when she is hailed by…
Karen Kendall’s Take me If You Can captivated me. I began reading it in an airport while waiting for a flight and I quickly became so engrossed in it that I actually continued reading while standing in line to board the plane. I was disappointed when my flight landed – and surprised that the trip…
In The Soldier’s Homecoming, Donna Alward tackles the tried and true secret baby plot with unusual sensitivity and a minimum of histrionics. The restraint with which she tells her story gives it a realism and a poignant quality I have seldom found in these plotlines. Unfortunately, a heroine with some growing up to do mitigates…
One of the most painful things for me as a reader is when an author just fails to make a plot work. In News Blues, Marianne Mancusi went with a somewhat unconventional hero, but failed to make him likable. Maddy Madison is a young producer for a San Diego TV station. She wants to work…
Christina Dodd’s latest contemporary suspense, Thigh High, takes place in post-Katrina New Orleans during Mardi Gras, so as a reader, I felt immediately drawn into the story. How would the city be portrayed? Its citizens? The Mardi Gras celebrations? Would Dodd address any of the political issues still swirling around the disaster there? The answer…
I picked up The Governess Wears Scarlet over a month ago, read a few chapters, put it down, read a few more books, picked it up again, read a few more chapters, put it down, read a few more books. Repeat several times before I finally managed to finish it. It wasn’t exactly a book…
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