In the interest of full disclosure, let me get something out of the way. Unless you had a similarly unorthodox childhood, I don’t think many others will pick up something that affected my overall impression of Sandra Hill’s Pearl Jinx. The Amish play a large part in this novel; their customs, religion, and beliefs all…
Liz Carlyle begins her new trilogy with Never Lie to a Lady, a somewhat uneven book in terms of momentum, but one that I ultimately enjoyed due to the interesting characters – both old and new. Xanthia Neville and her brother Kieran, the new Baron Rothewell, have recently arrived in London from the West Indies…
What does a trophy wife do when her husband absconds with everything they own? This is the dilemma facing Darcy McDaniel in Jane Graves’s fast and funny Hot Wheels and High Heels. If you are looking for the perfect summer read, look no further – this is it. Lyla Scarsdale wanted to be a trophy…
I knew at the beginning of Safe Harbor that this wouldn’t be my favorite book in the Drake Sisters series. Based on what I’ve seen of Jonas and Hannah in the previous books, the author had a lot of work to do to make them a likable couple for me. For the most part, I…
Camilla, a British ex-pat currently living in poverty in the south of France with her twin sons, starts an email relationship with a Pirate that quickly turns into something that sounds like r(omance. He wants her to bring her sons down to the Caribbean, live on his boat, and let him take care of them….
I’ve been waiting for Barak q’Young’s story in the Paladins of Darkness series since I read the first book in the series. For the most part, In Darkness Reborn lived up to my expectations, but the villains in this series are starting to come from Central Casting, which affected my enjoyment of this book. The…
I picked Jeanette Baker’s Chesapeake Summer to review because I had enjoyed her previous writing. So I had great expectations for this new book, which, unfortunately, was beyond disappointing. The story was so complex, with so many different plots and characters, that it was almost impenetrable. I was confused for a good portion of the…
Sin Incarnate by Isobel Carr is a typical example of the misleading packaging peddled by romance publishing houses with the goal, one assumes, to attract more readers. The title is so bland as to contain no valid information about the book whatsoever (Oooh, there must be a man in it! And sex!) and winds up being…
The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes by Jennifer Crusie, Eileen Dreyer, and Anne Stuart is a collaborative novel. The three author’s contributions are welded together so seamlessly that I was never able to pinpoint where one had left off and another began. In the end, my enjoyment of the book in itself was amplified in trying to…
The Sleeping Beauty Proposal struck a chord with me, though (in reality) the heroine and I have very little in common. I think other single women might agree with me (though married women might vehemently disagree) but from the outside, getting married looks like a really good deal. For one thing, you never get invitations…
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