Lydia Joyce uses intelligent characters and insightful prose to make even a take on the familiar Pygmalion story feel new again. There is nothing charming about the gutter from which the heroine is plucked, but seeing how her depth of character rescues a cynical aristocrat makes for an unexpectedly touching story. Maggie King has caught…
I’ve followed Beverly Barton’s The Protectors series from the beginning. This book, the 24th in the series, features the men and women who work with the Dundee Agency, a private investigation/bodyguard organization. The last book in the series, Penny Sue Got Lucky was charming and one of my favorite series romances for 2006. His Only…
Under the Millionaire’s Influence is an unremarkable series romance – a quick read that didn’t really work for me. It has a nice setting (Charleston, South Carolina), but not much else to recommend it. Starr Cimino lived a nomadic life with con-artist parents until the day social services intervened and she was placed in a…
In Dead Giveaway, Brenda Novak pulls off a romantic suspense novel that keeps the reader on the edge of her chair while providing characterizations that make one care about the fate of her protagonists. After a messy divorce and a long career as a cold-case detective in Chicago, Allie McCormick returned to her hometown of…
Anne Henry’s Cinderella Mom isn’t the type of book I usually pick up these days, but it came in a box of old Harlequin Americans I bought a while back so I figured I might as well give it a try. I was planning on giving it just a few chapters, only to wind up…
No Safe Place has several good things going for it. First and foremost, the hero and heroine are smart and sexy and share a great relationship. Next, the post-Katrina setting in New Orleans is very atmospheric – I could almost feel the humidity. However, the plot which began well, ended up as murky and convoluted…
I’ve never read a dragon book (unless you count Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and wasn’t sure what to expect from this anthology. I thought that, even if it turns out that I don’t like reading about dragons, at least I could be sure of getting good writing and storytelling, as I have…
I’m usually a sucker for road romances. There’s just something about the journey-as-bonding-experience that really draws me into a story. While Stacey Kayne’s debut definitely shows promise, inartful moments lessened its appeal. She definitely has her strengths, but there are still some rough edges to wear down. Skylar Daines is on her own after the…
The longest 384 pages of my life. What more is there to say? We start with Lady Elizabeth Hutton, a newly orphaned heiress changing places with her equally beautiful lady’s maid in order to give Elizabeth free roam of her castle while her maid is locked away by the evil Viscount Bannaster. Bannaster covets Elizabeth’s…
For a book to work for me, I have to be able to connect with either the characters or the plot. Ideally, both will click, but I need at least one or the other. Plowing through Speak No Evil, it was obvious that neither of those connections was there for me. A less than suspenseful…
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