A Rose at Midnight is the guiltiest pleasure I’ve had from a book in some time. It’s melodramatic, fairly cheesy, and almost completely over-the-top. For readers with a taste for this kind of thing, it’s sort of fun for the same reasons. The book’s not really good in the conventional sense, but I’d be lying…
The futuristic saga of 2176 begun in The Legend of Banzai Maguire continues in Kathleen Nance’s Day of Fire. This time, the series voyages to a future version of Canada for another high-tech SF thriller. In 2176, Tri-Canada is completely cut off from the rest of the world, quarantined ever since disease decimated much of…
Dr. Virginia Waters was sure she was marrying the wrong brother! She wanted quiet, safe Andrew, but he had jilted her after a 6 year engagement. Andrew’s brother, Inspector Zack Bullock, was a Mountie looking for a wife. A wife who would be busy with her own life and leave him alone to pursue his…
I always love to see historical romances set in times and places I don’t encounter as often those set in, for example, Regency England or the American West. Therefore, I was excited about reading a novel set among the Mounties in late 19th century Alberta. Sarah O’Neill travels all the way from Halifax, Nova Scotia…
This book, the third in a series of romantic James Bond ripoffs, is Very Silly. Its characters are shallow, and its plot (not unexpectedly) is ridiculous. But it did make me giggle. Canadian accountant Abel Andretti (hee – that’s giggle number one) comes to visit his sister Edie in Vancouver, only to discover she’s missing….
A sweet story with an unusual setting that’s mostly a pleasure to read, Adam’s Promise unfortunately hits a groan-inducing plot development that nearly capsizes it. Madeline Oxley is stunned when her father informs her that Adam Coates sent him a letter asking for her hand in marriage. When she was a girl, she had a…
Anybody else like me? Every now and then it’s time for me to indulge in what I call “a book, a Coke, and a soak” – a good long session in the tub with a bottle of soda at my side and a book in my hands. And some books are perfect for this: they…
I was 12 the first time I read Mrs. Mike. Like all book lovers, I have keepers…and then I have keepers. Mrs. Mike is in my sacred keeper pile – the kind of book that begs to be re-read every few years – and only gets better every time. The story is about Katherine Mary…
Sex and drugs and – Tristan und Isolde? That’s what Nancy Warren offers in Breathless, her October release from Blaze about a woman who wanders into danger and the cop who’s there to save her. Cursed with no sense of direction, bank employee Sophie Morton takes a wrong turn on her way to work and…
I was quite intrigued by the setting of Kathryn Fox’s The Seduction. The majority of the novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1898. The story’s heroine, Samantha Wilder, wants to escape the life of a conventional San Francisco society wife and become a reporter for one of her uncle’s newspapers. Sam decides that…