The last book I read was destined for my keeper shelf, so it’s bizarre to me that this one should be as well. It’s actually somewhat difficult to be objective about grading two such books, because naturally they have great differences between them. At first I thought Never Romance a Rake was not quite a…
I don’t how I have missed Julia Justiss’s previous novels, but it is an oversight I will have to correct soon. A Most Unconventional Match was an excellent introduction to her work – maybe too good. The hero is simply wonderful, the heroine’s growth is visible and the plot is believable. Hal is an unusual…
When Shades of Dark arrived, I was excited because it was my first Linnea Sinclair novel and I’ve read such good things about her writing. Then I noticed that it was the second of a series involving the same couple, somewhat of a disappointment because I find it incredibly hard to enter a world-building, science…
A variety of reasons compelled me to buy Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin. One, I love the historical novels she has written as Diana Norman, with Shores of Darkness being by absolute favorite. Two, my sister lived in Cambridge for four years, and any novel set in Cambridge arouses my curiosity….
A Highlander Never Surrenders frustrated me. At times it bored me, at others, particularly when the author explores the historical backdrop of Scotland in the 1650s, I was intrigued. The primary romance didn’t really work, but a secondary one did. Scottish rebel Claire Stuart has two goals: to save herself and her sister, Anne, from…
Dangerous Secrets is Lisa Marie Rice’s latest book. If you’ve read any of her previous books, you know what to expect – an ultra-masculine hero who is touched to his core by love, and a heroine who is strong, intelligent, and feminine to her fingertips. Add some danger, lots of love scenes, and you have…
Sometimes you pick up a romance, expecting pleasant entertainment but nothing special, reading a well-known plot, and – wham! – you end up curled in your bed into the small hours, braving your husband’s grumbling because your reading light is still on, sometimes dabbing a tear from the corner of your eye or smiling, because…
Two strangers who meet in Las Vegas, gamble, hit it rich, get drunk and then end up married. That’s the plot in a nutshell of Tall Tales and Wedding Veils, my first DIK for 2008. The plot is funny and fast paced and the characters are a total delight. This book is going to stay…
Once I started reading Pam Morsi’s Last Dance at the Jitterbug Lounge, I could hardly put it down, even when reaching for a Kleenex; it was such an emotional story and touched me on a personal level. I stayed up to 1:00 in the morning to finish the story and it was the first thing…
With The Lost Duke of Wyndham, Julia Quinn kicks off a two-book set of intertwined stories, each covering the same time period through the eyes of two possible dukes. The hero of each book has reason to believe he is truly the Duke of Wyndham, but one will have to accustom himself to a life…
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