Accidentally Yours by Susan Mallery, despite its bright cover and comedic writing, deals with a very serious issue: Fatal childhood illnesses. Mallery combines the two fairly well, but the book requires the reader to suspend quite a bit of reality for it to be truly enjoyable. Kerri Sullivan is a single working mother of a…
When I picked A Compromised Lady by Elizabeth Rolls to review, I was attracted by the title. I tend to like books about heroines other than virgins with unblemished reputations. In that respect, this book did not disappoint me. The story takes a heroine with a difficult past, with nothing glossed over, and gives her…
You know, these tortured premises for European Historicals that are part of a series are getting ever more…well, tortured. Consider this one: A self-made man with a distaste for lazy, foppish aristocrats leaves a will decreeing that the first of the young women in his family to marry a duke will inherit his large fortune….
I read and enjoyed Elaine Fox’s first two dog themed books (Guys and Dogs and Beware of Doug) and looked forward to reading this one. When I finished it, I felt like a bit like Goldilocks – not enough of some things, too much of others, and some were just right. Psychologist Tory Hoffstra is…
I already had a Dirk and Steele novel in my tbr pile, so I was happy for the chance to review The Last Twilight , the most recent installment in this unique series. Luckily, the story stands on its own, so I wasn’t lost. In fact, the hints of backstory, mixed with the success of…
Although Amanda Grange has written traditional Regency romances for British publisher Robert Hale for years, she has become more widely known for her Jane Austen point-of-view stories like Mr. Darcy’s Diary, retelling Austen’s novels from the hero’s viewpoint. I have read some of these and found them better than most of the other Austen-inspired tales….
Suzannah Dunn states in an essay included in this novel that she seeks to write real human drama rather than stilted costume drama. I find this aim admirable, and I’m all for books that connect and resonate with the reader. However, in this case a cursory historical gloss and soap operatic tone turned what could…
Buffy sure did start something, didn’t she? I have read many new paranormal series staring feisty, powerful heroines and their boys. While I’ve been disappointed more often than not, there have been some diamonds in the rough. Gleason’s Gardella Vampire Chronicles is just such a diamond. I am quickly becoming addicted to the series and…
Never on a Sundae is an odd book that’s more than a little difficult to categorize. The spine proclaims it to be a contemporary romance anthology, though I’d say it’s more Chick Lit than anything else. The stories are all loosely connected by a retro diner in Manhattan called Sundaes, where the characters are either…
I have had good results with Harlequin’s mail-order historicals (they release two per month, in addition to the four historicals available in stores), so I was happy to give Carol Townend’s latest novel a try, in spite of my determination to steer clear of books with “Rogue” and other such overused words in their titles….
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