As I read One Perfect Mate I kept trying to think what it reminded me of. A novel that’s a cross between a mail-order bride romance and Logan’s Run doesn’t come my way very often, and yet I had that nagging feeling. By book’s end I realized where the feeling was coming from. The protagonists…
Few writers deliver what readers want as consistently as Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb. With Seduction in Death, she scores again with a tale that revolves around a crime that could occur today, and a morality lesson about what happens when you mess with mother nature. The story opens with homicide detective Eve…
I recently noticed that Vengance in Death has never been reviewed. How could this be? Since in my very humble opinion it is the best book in J.D. Robb’s In Death series so far, I decided it was time to remedy this omission. The story opens with Lieutenant Eve Dallas receiving a call from a…
One of the features the characters in Whispers on the Wind have is the ability to mind-meld (no, they’re not Vulcans). I have to tell you, though, that by the time I finished the book, my mind felt more melted than melded. Trying to figure out when it took place and just what the characters…
Heart of a Warrior is the long-awaited sequel to Warrior’s Woman and Keeper of the Heart. Considering that KOTH was published nearly a decade ago, it is amazing how seamlessly this book picks up the narrative, and while it stands alone, it was also a delight to catch up with some favorite characters. The hero…
“But she loved Gage to the point of foolishness and beyond.”You know a book is in trouble when you agree with the heroine on this point. Try as I may, Meriel summarized Firestar more aptly than I ever could. Now, if she only had drawn the obvious conclusions from that realization, this book would have…
When I cracked this book I’d only read three of J.D. Robb’s In Death series, not in order (if you care, they were Glory in Death, Immortal in Death, and Conspiracy in Death). In the interests of full disclosure, I should also tell you that I was very skeptical. What with astonishing rate the author…
If you’re a reader of straight science fiction, futuristic romances need to be taken with a large grain of salt. That’s fine. But there’s a limit to how much a reader can swallow. Shadower’s opening chapters are good once you get past the too frequent use of futuristic lingo – but by the middle of…
When it comes to gloms, for sheer numbers my all-time biggest is Jayne Ann Krentz in all her incarnations, including Jayne Castle. I haven’t enjoyed her most recent work as much, however, and I dearly hoped that After Dark would reverse that trend. Sadly, it didn’t. Like Amaryllis, Zinnia, and Orchid, this has a “humans…
Wow is all I can say! Just when I think J.D. Robb’s In Death series can’t get any better, I’m proven wrong. This latest installment, Judgment in Death is just as sharp, clever and sexy as it’s predecessors. Detective Eve Dallas and husband Roarke, sigh, are still the sexiest and in their own way, cutest…