Though the theme of travel as a metaphor for great change has been used often enough to become a cliche, it still has power in the hands of a skilled author. In this road story, not everything is as it initially seems and the changes wrought by story’s end are not entirely what one would…
Miranda Jarrett is an author I’d forgotten about. Years ago, I read a few of her books and then glommed a bunch more, but they got lost in the bottomless tbr pile. Then I came across The Adventurous Bride and thought I’d give it a go. It’s a road romance full of unusual settings (like…
Sweeping is a word I often use to describe the last few Brenda Joyce romances I have read. As the storyline of A Lady at Last sweeps from one country to another (with some pirate adventure thrown in along the way), the one thing that remained utmost in my mind as the plot swerved here…
The title is a bit goofy and the cover is cheesy, but none of that matters in light of the fact that the story is downright awful. Myles Donal, powerful warrior and eldest son of the laird of the Donal clan, is reluctantly making his way through a snowstorm to marry the heiress of Eschoncan…
Barbara Metzger jumps aboard the paranormal bandwagon, but in a subtle, very Traditional Regency way. The results are mostly fun for this Metzger fan. Sir Coryn of Ardsley, a knight of the Crusades, has, since his death, acted as Death. For centuries he eased people into death all the while longing to make amends, to…
I have a real fascination with World War II, especially from the civilian point of view on the Eastern front and more than a passing interest in Holocaust literature. Given this, The Kommandant’s Girl, the story of a young Jewish woman posing as a Gentile and working for the Krakow resistance, should have appealed to…
Karen Kendall seems to have fallen in a proverbial plot hole and can’t quite dig herself out. Fit to be Tied suffers from a truly bad plot and some childish dialogue that would make my two year old wince. Jen’s engagement to the almost perfect Tom has been less than stellar. Her parents decided to…
Despite marketing efforts (the cover for the second book in this series touts the author as “the new star of paranormal romance”), I wouldn’t classify Tempting Evil as a paranormal romance. I would place it firmly in the Urban Fantasy section of your local library. That’s not to say there isn’t romance in it, but…
What do you do when Evil falls in love with you? How can you build your own life when a dark, otherworldly creature pursues you constantly, seeking to make you its own? This is the eerie premise of Lorelei Shannon’s debut novel, one of the first releases by new publisher Juno Books. Though the writing…
The good news is that with this book the author (aka Alesia Holliday) begins a new series featuring outrageously sexy and oversized paranormal warriors and…well, the bad news is that with this book the author begins a new series featuring outrageously sexy and oversized paranormal warriors. For the most part, I enjoyed this story, but…
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