I keep meaning to pay a visit to the Buried Treasures page and submit Rosalyn West’s name, because I love her books, but I never hear anyone talking about them but me. Consider this review my annual appeal on her behalf – if you like American Historicals with complex characters and incredible conflicts, please give…
Fans of small-town stories will love Breathless for its setting, while readers who like a good mystery will enjoy the courtroom scenes. Don’t worry – Breathless also has great characters, including a hero and heroine who often match wits with each other. Lily Morgan can’t believe that Daniel Walker has the gall to return to…
For about the first 100 pages of this book, I had to overcome the temptation to toss it through the roof and into orbit. I hated Eulie Toby the heroine, I hated what she had done to Moss Collier, the hero, and above it all I loathed how she kept referring to him as “the…
During the first half of Into the Wild Wind, I just couldn’t get enough of the hero and heroine. Here, it seemed, were two people just falling in love; neither one was trying to overcome a horrible childhood, or a disastrous first marriage. Then the characters began to make stupid decision after stupid decision, and…
There were many times during the first hundred or so pages of The Last Warrior when I nearly put it down. However, since it was assigned to me to review, I persevered and was rewarded. This book could have been a keeper, but for some problems. However, since this is only Ms. Kyle’s second book,…
This is not your typical frontier romance. It features an unfamiliar setting, a disfigured hero, a heroine who is emphatically not a virgin, and a sympathetic villain. In the hands of a lesser writer this combination would spell disaster, but Jill Marie Landis demonstrates once again that she is more than capable of crafting a…
Some authors manage to seamlessly integrate history into their romances, creating a rich backdrop for their characters and making the time period come alive. Unfortunately, A Cajun Dream is not one of those books. It’s not for lack of trying; there’s plenty of historical information, and it’s clear that the author has done her homework….
Not all F books are created equal. Many start out with a decent plot or semi-interesting characters, only to become bogged down with stupid plot twists or an incoherent writing style. Not so with Cassie Edwards’ latest book, Silver Wing, which starts out terribly, ends terribly, and is terrible on every single page in between….
When publishers print the genre of a book on the spine, they really ought to call a spade a spade. Twin Willows is clearly labeled as a romance, but in my mind it most definitely isn’t. Similarly, the back cover has a synopsis that sounds like a romance, but it is actually nothing like the…
One of the things that got me this gig was my observation to Laurie concerning the honesty of the reviews at AAR: I admired the fact that the reviewers were not afraid to call a dog a dog. Well, Patterns of Love has every canine earmark I can think of in a romance. These include…