With Heat Exchange, Shannon Stacey kicks off a new series based around Boston firefighters. If they’re all going to be as good as this installment, I’m definitely coming back for more! I first encountered Stacey with her Kowalski series. I enjoyed her writing because while her stories contain some of the time-honored sweetness of small-town…
So…who do I have to hold hostage to get the second book in this series early? I cannot wait until April of next year for it. Katee Robert has introduced a new family to the romance world and, boy, are they trouble. And I want more of them. In The Marriage Contract, Teague O’Malley and…
Anyone who has ever spent the night pacing the floors with a teething baby knows just how desperate a person can get when trying to soothe a child. Many parents become frantic for a solution. In the mid-1800’s such a solution came in the form of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. It quieted restless, pain filled…
Truly, Madly by Heather Webber is the first chick-lit series I’ve gotten excited about in a long time. I had a hard time putting this one down, and already look forward to the next book. Lucy Valentine’s family all has the same gift: they can read auras, and thus bring perfectly matched couples together. However,…
I don’t know what went wrong with the first two books in Lara Adrian’s Breed series. I gave a good attempt to read them, but found myself liking them as little as my fellow AAR reviewers and giving up. I called myself every type of crazy for choosing Midnight Awakening to review, thinking I was…
The Billionaire Next Door is the first in a trilogy about three brothers. While 2007 hasn’t been a good year for me when it comes to series romance, this book is a winner. I started reading it and didn’t put it down till I finished it and right now I want to read it again….
Sometimes silly, sometimes serious, Take Me Tonight is a fun book that is happily more hit than miss. Sage Valentine is an investigative reporter living in Boston. Her roommate Keisha was found dead, supposedly from suicide, but Sage doesn’t believe it, suspecting instead that her death was connected to her participation on a Web site…
Murder in the North End is the fifth book in P.B. Ryan’s Nell Sweeney mystery series set in post-Civil War Boston. While this series has been generally quite enjoyable overall, this new installment is weaker than the others, and the lack of romantic denouement feels forced. Nell Sweeney is still acting as a governess/substitute mother…
In a genre often accused of being too focused on small-town sheriffs, secret babies, and cowboys, the first novel in Kristin Hardy’s Holiday Hearts series is a breath of fresh air. Her protagonists – a captain in the Boston Fire Department and an engineer – are mature, intelligent, and quite likable. As the story opens,…
Mortal Sin is one of the best books I’ve read in 2004. However, I know as I write this that not everyone will like it as much as I did. Containing a myriad of hot-button issues such as the state of the Catholic church, a priest hero undergoing a crisis of self, teen runaways, porn…