What do you when you’re reading a pretty average book when the hero has a sudden personality transplant and becomes a jerk? Normally I’d give up on the book, unfortunately I had to keep reading this one in order to review it. Terry Hart has her reasons for disliking all members of Her Majesty’s Canadian…
As a plot device time travel should be used very carefully. The author’s job is made more complicated by the necessity of explaining the rules and conventions of the traveling done by the characters. To be effective, the time travel must also serve the purpose of furthering the story. Traveling through time, for its own…
Author Donna Ball has found great success with the popular werewolf books she’s written as Donna Boyd. For me though, her greatest achievement remains Wolf in Waiting, part of the Heart of the Wolf trilogy she wrote as Rebecca Flanders for the Silhouette Shadows line in the mid-90’s. Set in a world of beautiful and…
Forget Me Not is an intriguing contemporary suspense novel with gothic overtones, reminiscent of Mary Stewart’s books such as The Moon Spinners and My Brother Michael. Although the plot is somewhat predictable, multi-dimensional characters and a subtle building of tension sustain the reader’s interest. Complex and bittersweet family relationships are explored here as a woman…
Again was the first book I read by Kathleen Gilles Seidel. It was the winner of the RITA award for best Contemporary Single Title for 1995. I enjoyed it so much that I bought her entire backlist. Again combines a wonderfully humorous concept with a poignant love story. I laughed quite a bit at the…
The Cowboy’s Bride is Canadian author Carolyne Aarsen’s fourth book under the Love Inspired label. Here is an engaging story of two young Canadians who find “divine” love on earth as they each face seemingly insurmountable barriers in their struggles to attain their own dreams. An irresistibly charming hero makes for enjoyable reading, despite a…
The Rocky Ridge Man has a very distinctive opening scene. The heroine is walking past a row of men – looking for the perfect male butt! Though this is a cowboy romance, it’s not a typical one. The premise and setting are both unusual and interesting. Unfortunately, the conflict is less inspired. Sonya Duncan is…
Like many of you, I suspect, I cut my teeth on the old “Harlequin Presents” romances, where nothing more passionate took place between the hero and heroine than a few steamy kisses. Which was just as well, since if Sister Ruth had caught us with what we were reading instead of Latin textbooks, we’d’ve been…
Oh Susannah is published by Ponder Romance, a small Canadian company currently being sued by Harlequin. With its limited budget, Ponder is obviously the underdog in this scenario. Since I sympathize with Ponder’s plight, I really hoped I would like this book. Series romances with a Canadian focus sound like a great idea. Unfortunately, this…
Well, I did something this week that I promised myself I never would do. I read two Judith Duncan books in a row, and I really can’t say that I’m sorry. I was contacted last week by a lady who’s a Judith Duncan reader like me, and in her e-mail, she mentioned that one of…