I have read all of Jane Feather’s books from the ’90s and some from the ’80s. This book is her finest because she goes into her material with a depth and complexity her other books lack. While all of her books are entertaining, this one is not only entertaining, it’s thought-provoking. Tarquin is a handsome…
When Venus Fell is one of the best books I’ve read all year. Venus Arinelli, former child prodigy and concert pianist, now plays in dives all around the country, lives in an RV and avoids the government. She also protects her fragile sister Ella. Venus distrusts the government because her father felt that it had…
The Pygmalion myth gave George Bernard Shaw the idea for his play Pygmalion which was turned into the wonderful musical My Fair Lady. Judith Ivory takes this story and gives it a twist, (and a lot more romance than grumpy old GBS did). Edwina Bollash, linguistics expert and tutor of gauche young ladies in the…
Draycott Abbey, that great gray cat Gideon, and the ghost of Adrian Draycott are back for another adventure. In the latest Draycott Abbey romance, author Christina Skye has given us another wonderful story of love and adventure. Hero and heroine, Jared MacNeill and Maggie Kincaide, are fighting their own demons when they meet. Maggie is…
I’m just crazy about Harry – Harry O’Dell, that is, the hero of Suzanne Brockmann’s latest blockbuster. He’s a foul-mouthed, rough-edged, rumpled FBI agent from Brooklyn, out to save a dead man’s former trophy wife from the mob. Before you start reading this book, make sure dinner’s cooked and the dishes are done. You won’t…
Michelle Jerott won the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award for her first book, Absolute Trouble. I thoroughly enjoyed that one and wondered if she could do as well on her next book. Well, as good as Absolute Trouble was, All Night Long is even better and it is my candidate for one of…
Call it women’s intuition, call it fate, call it I get a discount at my bookstore, but I had a feeling I would like the Stephanie Plum mysteries by Janet Evanovich. To begin with, the heroine is frazzled, frizzy-haired and frustrated with her current lot in life. Familiar territory, I thought, plunging right ahead. Trenton,…
When I started The Promise, Donna Boyd’s sequel to her Desert Isle Keeper The Passion, I figured I was in for another exceptional read. I am very happy to report that I was not disappointed! This review is likely to turn into a gushing rave because it’s been so long since I’ve read two consistently…
I’ve read beautiful heroines and I’ve read plain ones but Jo Beverley did something in Forbidden that I’ve never encountered. She wrote a beautiful heroine who is pitiable precisely because she is so magnificent looking. This is some trick, but it’s not as hard to believe as one first thinks. Regardless of age or beauty,…
If I were to sum up Loyalty in Death in one sentence, I would say, “This book is ice, frigid, mag, remember the word elevator, and Roarke gets shot.” Alas, I would not be that cruel. And, oh, “mag” apparently means fabulous. In the New York City of sixty years from now, New York Police…
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