I have thoroughly enjoyed many of Nora Roberts’ earlier works, but her most recent offerings have been hit and miss for me. Blood Brothers is the first book in a new trilogy that includes magic, demons, and connections to the past. Unfortunately, this combination yielded only a somewhat average story that was another miss for…
It’s been a while since I last reviewed for AAR, partly because my life had become hectic and partly because I’d read what felt like dozens of books that made me go meh. I decided to dip my toe back into the reviewing pool and picked what I thought would be a safe bet: the…
I may have enjoyed Edge of Midnight by Shannon McKenna when I was a teenager. The book would have been passed around the lunch table and we would have giggled at the sex scenes, feeling very grown up and daring, even slightly shocked at the positions and the language. Now, many years later, I still…
Warrior’s Bride is the quintessential C read. I’ve struggled for some time to write the review, because I felt that the sentence “this book was okay” more or less summed it all up. I didn’t like it, and I didn’t hate it, and there just isn’t much more to it than that. Izzy was born…
Just three years ago, Jennifer St. Giles was a welcome breath of fresh air with her American-set historical romances featuring classic Gothic overtones. My oh my, how the mighty have fallen. So, just how do you take a good thing and pretty much ruin it in three short years? First of all, you move the…
Take a modern southern gal who owns a beauty salon/janitorial supply store and a fledgling free-range egg business and match her up with the successful prodigal son of her older friend in a small town in west Texas. You’d think this is going to be a screwball comedy complete with every southern cliché the author…
I broke a lot of my own rules when I picked up this book for review. For one thing, I never buy books in trade paper. Here in Australia, they can cost about $30 a piece, so if an author starts out in trade paper, I just wait until the book comes out in mass…
The Missing is a creepy horror story that deftly depicts many different characters and their internal monsters. With lyrical and at times poetic writing, it features haunting portrayals of an ancient predator that arises and devours a small town. If you like horror, Langan might be a new author to check out. The story opens…
When I first read the back of this book, I said to myself, here we go again – yet another marriage of convenience story. However, as I read, I was surprised and touched by Fielding’s take on the old plot, and in the end, liked it a great deal. Ivo is a millionaire married to…
Debut author Michelle Marcos serves up a mixed bag with When a Lady Misbehaves. It has an original storyline with some good dialogue, but the improbability of the plot and the huge number of historical inaccuracies left me with an incredibly poor overall impression. April Jardine is a brothel scullery maid with big dreams: dreams…
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