I am very lucky that my local library system offers the option of checking out, via download, audio books and e-books. Since I got an MP3 player for my birthday, I’ve been exploring my various audio options. Because romance options on audio are slim and mostly limited to bestselling authors I don’t particularly enjoy, I’ve…
I listen to a lot of audiobooks and have read mysteries for years, so Karin Slaughter’s Martin Misunderstood, an original audio novella, seemed perfect. It wasn’t. Martin is an obese 36-year-old who lives with his mother. Bullied all his life by his mother and his peers, he’s now bullied by his co-workers at Southern Toilet…
When you think romance, Dean Koontz probably isn’t a name that springs to mind right away, but I find many of his books deeply romantic. The first Koontz book I ever read was Watchers and I was very moved by the tender romance between the loner Travis Cornell and Nora Devon, who thinks of herself…
The heroine of Linda Winstead Jones’s latest novel faces quite a challenge. For 300 years the women of her family have been cursed and unable to have a normal relationship because they are doomed to lose any man with whom they fall in love. Through the generations many of the women in the family, including…
A famous, wealthy, fabulously attractive, professional football star driving down the road in his Aston Martin sees a sweaty woman marching down the side of the road in a beaver costume and decides to give her a ride. Attractive scenario – huh? It hardly inspired me to continue but this is, after all, Susan Elizabeth…
This story is a departure from Ms. Stuart’s previous works. The hero was not as tortured, and there was almost a light-hearted tone throughout the story. Maybe the term would be dim, not dark, but not truly light either. Nicholas Strangefellow is not what he seems. The King’s Fool is anything but, and his surname…