Take one pitiful girl who marries a man, and on their wedding night, comes out of the bathroom to find her brand new husband in the arms of her best friend. That’s how this story starts off. The heroine, Serina Mann, believes she’s hexed. Bad luck has run in her family for years, so Serina…
My brain is full of factoids. That makes me a great Jeopardy player but it’s kind of frustrating because sometimes I can’t remember where I read a certain thing. Anyway, I read somewhere that editors of romance novels think readers don’t like books about athletes. Well editors, this reader loves them, but they are darn…
Delightful, simply delightful! This charming tale is what Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice would have been like if Miss Lizzy and Mr. Darcy had decided to defy convention and touch each other, alllll over. The storyline is a favorite: A stuffed-shirt gentleman fights falling for a nice, but poor, country girl. She may just be…
Today while surfing the ‘Net, somebody mentioned this book and how good it was and how funny it was and I thought to myself, “Gee, I picked that up the other night. Think I’ll go read it.” So, tonight I sat down, expecting to have a laugh or two because most books that people say…
If you’ve heard of Jennifer Crusie in the past, it’s likely you’ve heard how funny she writes. While there’s plenty of her trademark humor in The Cinderella Deal, there’s also quite a bit of poignancy, so much so that I got weepy during the last fourth of the book (and, no, I was not having…
Hands down, this is the best screwball comedy romance I’ve ever read. I’m not sure why I overlooked Susan Elizabeth Phillips for so long, but after I picked up this novel I had to glom everything she wrote immediately. Phoebe Somerville is a blonde bombshell bimbo with a brain and heart that everyone overlooks. Her…
Wild Dream is a romantic comedy of some charm, set in a mythical New Mexico town shortly after the Civil War. Alice Duncan’s flair for slapstick and clever comedy comes on too strong for the first part of the book, but then settles down to create some delightful romance between Adelaide Blewitt (pronounce her last…
I’ve long been an admirer of the writing of Lisa Ann Verge. Her Heaven in his Arms is one of my favorite Road Romances. So I keenly anticipated reading her latest release, Wild Irish Rose, which is another Road Romance. And while it took me awhile to appreciate this book, something unusual and very wonderful…