I had this vague impression that Minda Webber wrote light-hearted paranormals. Little did I know that meant encountering bad jokes and glaring historical liberties in her latest book, The Reinvented Miss Bluebeard. Eve Bluebeard, the daughter of, yes, the notorious pirate Captain Bluebeard, abandons the pirate life for which he groomed her and decides to…
The Mesalliance had the potential to be a truly interesting read. The major players – penniless but proud aristocrats and the self-made man who now owns their entire estate – at their very best show the promise of being interesting, multidimensional people. However, instead of letting intriguing characters tell their story, I cannot help feeling…
I love Patricia Gaffney. She is one of the few authors whose writing I not only adore, but I would love to befriend her if the opportunity ever presented itself. I read her women’s fiction before discovering the romance genre. And when I did start reading romance, I almost fainted when I found her earlier…
I have enjoyed several of Lucy Monroe’s books and Satisfaction Guaranteed proves to me that she is a very dependable author. I can count on her for a good story with interesting characters, which is my criterion for an “auto-buy.” The only flaw here is that the book is plot-lite, but Ethan and Beth are…
In my experience books in the Blaze series tend to focus their plots within the bedroom. Because I’m more interested in reading books that focus outside of it, I tend to stay away from them. However, I was pleasantly surprised with Underneath It All. The author manages to combine great sex with an intriguing and…
We first meet Eve Dearing as a child. She is sleeping in a hotel and her mother calls to her in her dreams. When she wakes up, her mother’s dog is beside her bed, soaked with rain. Through her mother’s side of the family (the Claverleys), Eve inherited mystical gifts. Eve can read her mother’s…
Blood Bound is the second book in what could become a great new urban fantasy series starring a tough, non-human heroine. Mercedes Thompson is a VW mechanic, which gets her a lot of jokes. She is a “walker”, which is similar to the Skinwalkers of Native American folklore. Mercy can turn into a coyote, but…
First person point of view can be difficult to read sometimes, and when the person telling the story is unlikable, it becomes excruciating. Just finishing Moongazer took extreme effort, and if I never read another heroine like Skye Brown, that’s fine with me. This is the second in the Shomi imprint of “speculative romance”, and…
With so many paranormal romances being published, it’s hard to find plots and characters that are original and fresh. Julia Templeton’s Return to Me is fresh, due mainly to the secondary romance of the hero’s homosexual brother. Templeton has taken a chance here – and it works. Darius MacLeod, a 14th century Scot, would have…
I love romances set during the Restoration – the bawdy court of Charles II, The Plague, The Great London Fire – there is lots of scope for the imagination in this too-rarely used historical period, and Westin has obviously done her research. However, she also has improbable and annoying leads interacting with all that history….
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