Little Lady, Big Apple is the sequel to last year’s very enjoyable The Little Lady Agency. This one suffers a bit in comparison to the first, but overall it is still agreeable. Melissa Romney-Jones is coasting along enjoying the dual successes of her business (she organizes the lives of single men as a sort of…
I’ve read several of Lora Leigh’s short stories and a couple of her novels. I have come to the conclusion that I prefer her in small doses. Nauti Boy is burning hot, but pages and pages of sex don’t do much when the story is thin and you don’t care for the characters. When Douglas…
Pamela Palmer’s debut romance The Dark Gate is the best of Silhouette’s new Nocturne line that I’ve read so far. It benefits from having an intriguing plot that avoids most of the usual paranormal tropes (no vampires here!) as well as a genuinely unsettling villain who actually gave me the creeps. A rapist is on…
Poor Juliette Garrison. She has been saddled with one of the worst heroes I’ve had the displeasure of reading. Thomas Jameson flat out ruined this book. The Bare Truth would have been a quite a nice read had the romance been left out. Juliette has been poor all her life. With her mother dying, she…
The third time was the charm for me. After reading two not very enjoyable books, I picked up Virgin River and was totally engrossed in a charming story. The good thing is, it’s the first in a trilogy – I will be at the store to buy the other two books as soon as they…
Reading Simply Magic brought to mind an excellent ATBF column about Regencies in Disguise, books that are European Historicals in length and sensuality, but Trad Regencies in tone and societal mores. So many historicals set in the Regency are completely modern in voice and character behavior. Not so with Mary Balogh, and for this Traditional…
It sort of kills me not to be able to give The Haunting a better grade. It’s a very well-written book, with a grace and flow to its prose that’s too seldom seen in series romances anymore. Hope Tarr also delivers a sexually explicit story that goes beyond mere sex, finding the deeper emotions in…
Oddly enough, although I thought Ice Blue suffered from a number of problems, I enjoyed it nonetheless. The third in Anne Stuart’s Ice series, it’s not as good as the first book, Black Ice, but much better than the second, Cold As Ice. It’s kind of a mess, but an agreeable one. When Summer Hawthorne…
Fans of tortured heroes will love Simon Blackwell. Fans of independent heroines will love Lady Annabel McBride. Fans of pleasant, but formulaic romances will love The Secret Passion of Simon Blackwell. Me – I just hope the next book I read has a bit of originality and and a few surprises. Lady Annabel (Anne) McBride…
One thing I love about Jane Feather’s books is her ability to evoke particular places and times in her work. She is one of the few authors who sets her books in a variety of times and places and in each, the reader truly feels transported. This time around, she has returned to Regency England…
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