The premise of Night Games is simple and silly. Five hundred years in the future, sex has become a spectator sport. Brian Byrne is the MVP of his time. Because he is feeling overworked and burnt out he decides to take a vacation. In Brian’s century, time travel is possible, so he goes back five…
In medieval times, the citizens of Markesew picked a Virgin to sacrifice to their local dragon each year and Alizon is selected. “Saint” George is a professional wrestler, who is called across time to Alizon’s castle where he is expected to slay the dragon. Upon his arrival, George finds that the dragon is not the…
I’ve always loved Suzanne Brockmann’s books. Impressed by her Navy SEAL heroes, I went on a glomming rash of her lesser known Loveswept titles. Because it garnered positive reviews elsewhere, Time Enough for Love made it to the top of my TBR pile in no time at all. Now that I’ve read it, my verdict…
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…
The Promise is a gentle time-travel story with a couple that pulls each other across time between 1888 and 2002. I really like a well-done time-travel story, and the time-travel elements in this story worked nicely. Unfortunately, the rest of the plot never caught fire in a way that would elevate the book as a…
Having just read Isolde Martyn’s dense new medieval The Knight and the Rose, I was definitely ready for something light and fluffy as a change of pace. And while To Charm a Knight was both light and fluffy, it unfortunately was not very good. Victoria Desmond’s billionaire boss, H. Walter Harrington, is a medieval buff….
This was a tough one to grade since there was a lot to like in Bethany’s Song, including the setting and lead characters Bethany James and Matthew Gray. The story also had many intriguing elements, but there were so many of them that the overall impact was diluted. And while the heroine and hero were…
Voyager, the third installment in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, is a sharp contrast to the previous book, Dragonfly in Amber. Whereas Dragonfly began and ended with Claire and Jamie separated for twenty years, Voyager, as the title indicates, is the story of Claire’s return to the past and to Jamie. After finding out that Jamie…
I spent a year and a half staring at the four installments of this story, sitting neatly on one of my shelves. Diana Gabaldon’s books are filled with plot devices I had always shied away from in romance novels. “They’re written in the first person, the heroine’s older than the hero, they’re huge,” I whined,…
If there’s a novelist whose hand with plot, character, dialogue, prose, sensuality, historical detail, humor, and emotion is very near perfect, I’d say without a qualm that it’s Diana Gabaldon. Several books after the incomparable Outlander – the one that started it all – she can still produce a 1,000-page tome without losing the sheer…