As a reader, I find myself quick to praise the new and innovative. However, sometimes a sweet, “comfort food” book comes along that just leaves me smiling. Wedded in a Whirlwind is just such a book. It does not reinvent the genre, but in a very limited number of pages, the author constructs a beautiful…
America does not have royalty or a peerage, but for a period of time right after the Civil War, until the outbreak of World War I, an observer of the social scene in New York might think we did. During this time, known as the Gilded Age, members of society gave lavish balls, built spectacular…
The second novel in Elizabeth Hoyt’s Legend of the Four Soldiers series is even better than the first. To Seduce a Sinner is funny and heartbreaking, sexy and poignant. A hung-over Jasper Renshaw, Viscount Vale, has just been left at the altar by his fiancée when he is offered a replacement – by the prospective…
Turbulent Sea is the sixth of Christine Feehan’s Drake Sisters books. It introduced me to the series…and it’s a truly fantastic read. Joley Drake is one of seven sisters, each of whom is blessed with a magical gift. Joley’s is the gift of sound. She possesses an incredible voice that she uses to manipulate emotions….
I’ve been wanting to read this book since I first noticed gypsy Merripen’s silent adoration of Winifred in Kleypas’s previous book, and Seduce Me at Sunrise did not disappoint with its tale of longing and hopeless love. Kev Merripen has lived with Winifred Hathaway’s family since they found him on the brink of death, beaten…
When I open a book and smile at the first sentence, it’s a sign of good things to come. When I close the book – still smiling – I know I’ve found a keeper. Power Play is funny, sweet and utterly delightful. Years ago, Monica Geary came to New York determined to be an actress….
I’ve had a string of bad reading luck lately. Three of the five books I last reviewed were Ds, with more mediocre stories in between. However, my luck turned when I picked Secret Diaries of a Gentleman, the third in Laura Lee Guhrke’s popular Girl Bachelors series. Like many other readers, I loved the first…
A Rather Lovely Inheritance provided me with a delightful read, tapping into my love of European travel and girl sleuths, as well as my fondness for unusual chick lit. Penny Nichols is on a film set in Cannes; she provides historical research to the producers of historical sagas and her current project is a movie…
Confession time: I’ve got the chef fantasy thing bad. For months and months now, I’ve been seeking out books featuring chef heroes searching in vain for one that would include the unique restaurant sensibility of Kitchen Confidential, the requisite food porn, and a hero who could evoke my wildest chef fantasies. The search, fellow readers,…
Medeiros’s latest offering, Some Like It Wicked, hooked me from the very first page. Its well-written characters and snappy, intelligent dialogue had me loving almost every moment. Her last several books have been great and I was so happy to see that this one live up to the same standard. I plan to revisit this…
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