Sometimes silly, sometimes serious, Take Me Tonight is a fun book that is happily more hit than miss. Sage Valentine is an investigative reporter living in Boston. Her roommate Keisha was found dead, supposedly from suicide, but Sage doesn’t believe it, suspecting instead that her death was connected to her participation on a Web site…
In The Taste of Innocence, Stephanie Laurens manages to pull off a triple play of plot points that did not work at all for me. First, this is beyond Regency-lite; much of the book had a very contemporary feel to it. Second, this is the first time in a while for me that the hero…
It’s a pleasure to read certain books. There have been times when I didn’t want to sleep, eat, or go to work since I simply had to finish a wonderful book. Then there are books like All-American Father, which was a chore to read. Much as I wanted to zip right through it, I couldn’t…
To me there is wallpaper Medieval and Medieval-lite. Lynn Kurland is definitely in the lite category. Her Medieval and time travels may not show the daily grit of life in the past, but she manages to give us the flavor all wrapped up in a nice lighthearted bow. Her latest is not without its problems…
Described by the publisher as a paranormal anthology about the “wild instinct in everyone”, this trade paperback hits some very high notes, indeed, along with a few bewildering ones. But more about that later.
Linda Howard makes a welcome return to series romance, a subgenre that desperately needs her, with Raintree: Inferno. The first in a new trilogy co-written with Linda Winstead Jones and Beverly Barton, it doesn’t rank among Howard’s best (series or otherwise), but it’s still a good read. For centuries, the Raintree and Ansara clans, two…
Loretta Chase finishes up her Carsington Brothers series with the youngest brother, Darius. Although Darius is not my favorite brother in the series, Not Quite a Lady has a really terrific heroine in Lady Charlotte Hayward. At sixteen, Charlotte was seduced by a rake who was subsequently killed in a duel. She gave birth in…
Castle of the Wolf certainly delivers a refreshingly different setting, but the characters and the story have a regrettably familiar feel. Still, for readers craving a story not set in Regency England, this book might well hit the spot. The plot involves Cissy Fussell, a young woman destined to be a poor relation living on…
I have to admit, it’s been a couple of years since I bought or read a Dark Hunter novel. I devoured probably the first six in quick succession, and Fantasy Lover remains one of my favorite re-reads. I certainly appreciate how revolutionary the series was at the time, but I must admit I am a…
In an attempt to become more familiar with the paranormal phenomenon sweeping romance, this past year I sought to read a number of these books to better understand what all the excitement is about. That said, there are many reasons beyond the paranormal aspect that should have kept me from enjoying Kissing Sin. First there…
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