Laura Leone’s Fever Dreams is an expanded and updated version of a hard-to-find romance originally published in 1997. It reminds me strongly of some of Sandra Brown’s steamy and adventurous series novels. I don’t mean that in a backhanded way: when Brown is good, she’s very good. And so Leone, and so is this book….
Susan Krinard has again superbly demonstrated why she is one of my favorite authors. She has written a remarkable and complex universe, and a great romance too! This book absorbed and captivated me and I read most of it in one sitting. In Krinard’s universe, mankind populated distant planets (the Nine Worlds and Concordant planets…
Raney is a Southern novel, but don’t look for gracious antebellum mansions surrounded by magnolias and populated by society matrons and belles. This is the Appalachian South, the South of pine trees and Baptist churches, where accents twang instead of drawl. And Clyde Edgerton nails the voice of the region exactly. I should know; I…
Lovers of beta heroes, I give you Derek Whittaker. He is (to quote Mrs. Malaprop) “the very pineapple of perfection” and all that a hero should be, whether he be alpha, beta, or gamma. The story is engaging, the rest of the characters are too, and I simply adored this book. Derek Whittaker is a…
Beauty Queen starts out as a bit of a screwball comedy. Somewhere along the way, though, it turns into an insightful and emotionally intense romance between two imperfect people. It made me laugh and cry, in turns. The book opens with a hilarious want-ad that could only exist in the heroine’s imagination: Dynamic, Exciting, and…
The Tempting is the kind of book that defies easy grading. I’ve held on to a copy ever since I first read it, not because I loved it, but because I knew I’d never find anything like it again. Parts of it are extraordinary, parts of it are too strange for words. Normally that would…
Could It Be You? is an old favorite of mine. The original copy I bought ten years ago this month has followed me through several cross country moves, one book I always like to keep on hand. It’s a short book, a simple but effective romantic fantasy (in the non-paranormal sense). It does contain two…
I considered the preceding book in this series, After Dark a return to the Jayne Ann Krentz/Jayne Castle I know and love. After a string of disappointing books for me, she hit her stride with Emmett and Lydia and the world of Harmony a planet discovered after an energy anomalie opened a gate between Earth…
The Angel With One Hundred Wings is set in Baghdad during the ninth century, during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid. On the cover, the publisher has added the subtitle “A Tale From The Arabian Nights.” Confession time: I have never read The Arabian Nights, and know next to nothing about the history…
The Queen’s Fool shows the plotting, spying, and intrigue that lay at the heart of the court of Queen Mary of England, as seen through the eyes of a woman who was an outsider. If you like that sort of thing – as I do – you really should pick it up. It’s the kind…
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