Three Fates is a Nora Roberts single title that is like one of her trilogies rolled into one. Three great heroines, three great heroes, suspense and a fairly believable villain make this one of the best of Nora’s books I’ve read in a long time. If you haven’t picked up her hardbacks in a while…
I’m slowly getting addicted to SF/F. Whenever I need a change of pace from romance, I wander over to the SF shelves in my library and take a peek. I’ve found a number of excellent authors in the past couple of years including Sharon Shinn, Connie Willis, Charlaine Harris, and Kelley Armstrong. With her wonderful…
A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux is truly the definition of a Desert Isle keeper for me. If I could only have ten books to read for the rest of my life, I would want this to be one of them. I knew this book was something special when I read it for…
Mia Thermopolis (full name: Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo) is a fourteen-year-old, vegetarian, environmentalist, New-York-City-residing European princess. It has only been a few months since Mia learned she was heir to the throne of Genovia, and since she found this out, her life has been one catastrophe after the next. In order that she might…
A Marriage to Fight For was first released in the UK (where I live) in 2001 and was, for me, one of the best books I read last year. This superb book, which is an example of series romance at its absolute best, moved me greatly. It is the story of a family in crisis…
Kathleen Gilles Seidel is amazing. Why she is not better known and more widely read is a complete mystery. Her books are masterpieces of characterization and storytelling, filled with clever observations and the flavor of real life. Till the Stars Fall is my favorite book by her yet. It showcases all of her considerable talent…
I know as I write this review that it’s not going to find universal agreement, and some of you may even feel that I’ve lost my mind for granting the latest Rachel Gibson release DIK status. Nevertheless, Lola Carlyle Reveals All is exactly the kind of book I like, a somewhat suspenseful contemporary with a…
Once in awhile there comes a story so completely transporting that, from the exhilarating experience of reading it, you emerge almost wordless. A review cannot fully describe what is indescribably beautiful. But I will say this: Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha is among the handful of works that come to my mind when confronted…
One of these days, when someone invents a practical time machine, I am going to spend a few days at Victorian and Edwardian parties. I don’t think I’d like to live there permanently, but it would be fun to dress up in silk and jewels and go to an elegant formal dinner back when dining…
I’m beginning to think Tara Taylor Quinn is a find. I very much enjoyed her first single title for Harlequin, last year’s Sheltered in His Arms. It was the first book of hers I’d read, and I went on red alert for her other titles. I’m happy to say that the next one I read,…
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