The hero and heroine of Unfinished Business couldn’t be more different: black and white, bleeding-heart liberal and ultra-conservative, urban and rural, peace activist and war hero. I admit that some personal politics made me wary of the book, as I didn’t see myself liking the hero. Erica Johnson teaches school in Washington, D.C. She’s sick…
To put it plainly, Changeling disappointed me. One of its main problems is an overabundance of plot. There are just too many things vying for space and time here. The first book in the series, Witchling, also suffered from this problem. I keep coming back for more because I genuinely like the characters, but it’s…
I am not a huge fan of vampire romances but I have read a few that I really liked. After reading Kiss of Midnight, I realize I prefer vampire-lite to vampire-dark. In vampire-lite the vampire hero sips from necks while inducing pleasure – he doesn’t kill his victims and his role with humans is one…
The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever starts off as vintage Julia Quinn, and that is high praise indeed! I was captivated after just reading a few pages, set aside some work that really had to be done and devoured the book in one sitting. A short prologue relates the first meeting of hero and…
The Devil’s Temptation is the second book in a trilogy that follows Sins of Midnight in the Daventry sisters series. The focus is on middle daughter Maura. I didn’t read the first book in the series, which caused some confusion because of an on-going sub-plot involving the heroine’s mother. Elise Marchand, Maura’s mother, was an…
From the simplistic plot to its continued abuse of the English language, Red Hawk’s Woman just gets it wrong, wrong, wrong. While Red Hawk’s quest starts off in an interesting enough fashion, the hodgepodge of Native American mythology and overwrought New Age-y spiritualism quickly became too saccharine for this reader to handle. Red Hawk was…
No Humans Involved is the seventh book in the Women of the Otherworld series, a series that has maintained a readable quality, but not managed to exceed – or really match – the quality of its first couple of books. This book fits into that pattern very neatly. This time around our Otherworld Woman is…
It almost pains me not to be able to give Lori Devoti’s Unbound a higher grade than the one you see above. It’s so sharply written that I actually sat up a little straighter while reading the first few pages, excited to see a series romance with such crisp prose. In addition, the author introduces…
Lord of Scandal riveted me at the start, but went downhill all too quickly. Though it’s clear author Cornick tried hard to make her characters likable, their lack of dimension left me unable to empathize with the problems in their lives. and the over-the-top villain is of the laughing-maniacally-while-drowning-puppies variety. Each time he appeared in…
Kiss and Dwell is the first book in Kelley St. John’s Sexth Sense series about a Cajun family that “talks to dead people”. It is that rare story which is by turn funny, romantic and even poignant – a great start for what appears to be an intriguing Blaze series. Monique Vicknair is one of…
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