The Warrior Trainer is the 2006 winner of the American Title Contest, a kind of romance novel American Idol competition sponsored by Dorchester Books and Romantic Times Magazine. While Russell shows some promise, there were some fundamental writing problems that really pulled me out of the story. The premise is an interesting one. Legend has…
I’m glad I gave this author another chance. I tried to read Stargazer, a previous book by Colby Hodge, but it didn’t work well for me. Thankfully I connected with the two lead characters in Shooting Star and enjoyed their story immensely. The author mentions that Star Trek and Star Wars were her inspiration, and…
Who Needs Cupid? is an anthology of connected short tales that revolve around a coffee shop in a small town in Illinois. I’m a fan of small town stories, but this anthology didn’t engage me at all. The stories were as light as the froth on a cappuccino, but not at all tasty.
Gone is a solid and engrossing mystery with a fairly suspenseful plot. However, readers should not expect a romance, because this isn’t one, although it does examine the relationship between a husband and wife. Rainie Connor Quincy, a capable former cop turned child advocate, has strangely disappeared in the middle of the night, leaving her…
Soulful Strut tells the tale of a woman wrongly imprisoned for many years who is now free after someone vouched for her innocence. Although it should have been an interesting story to match the cool title, the book’s very slow pacing drained away my interest. Monette never expected to leave prison. Fifteen years ago, the…
With many books, despite having reservations about wholeheartedly recommending them, I can at least point out an audience that might find some aspect of the book enjoyable. For example, the marriage of convenience plot is a favorite of mine, and I can usually enjoy a less than stellar book with this storyline. Despite that, Satin…
Dancing on Sunday Afternoons is the first of Harlequin’s new Everlasting Love line, which focuses on love stories that unfold over a longer timespan than the typical romance. It’s a promising beginning, even if it’s not a perfect one. When her grandmother Giulia suffers a terrible fall during a trip to her native Italy, Cara…
A Babe in Ghostland has a Haunting of Hill House premise with a whittled down cast. The end result is more comic and over-the-top than creepy, but overall it’s quite entertaining. Megan Barrows is an antique store owner with an interesting talent: she can “feel” the stories of the treasures she collects and sells. Once…
This book took me a week to read. I took it everywhere I could think of to help along the process, but nothing worked. Finally, I forced myself to take it as my public transportation book. I have a daily two hour commute, and as a general rule my bus reading time is sacred “what…
I know that I like a romance when I not only enjoy the story while reading it, but genuinely feel happy thinking about it afterward. Deborah Fletcher Mello’s latest book accomplishes just that. She introduces readers to a number of really likable characters and creates a world that is very memorable. This is my first…
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