Dangerous Illusions has just about everything a good romantic suspense novel should: complex characters, plenty of passion, a lot of emotion, taut action sequences, manipulation, betrayals, sustained tension and a strong heroine. Unfortunately, the execution often gets in the way of the story. It’s a compelling enough read that I do recommend, although that recommendation…
OK, what’s the Number 1 Female Fantasy? Forget sex for now. Let’s concentrate on the more imaginative stuff. In my opinion, it’s got to be one of two things: it’s either Healing the Tortured Soul or Taming the Rake. Both are delicious fantasies, and I’d say they regularly tangle with each other for the top…
Ordinarily, action-packed books (or movies for that matter) just aren’t my thing. Shoot-em-ups, hijackings, SEALS and the like seldom sustain my attention for any length of time. My husband will never understand my desire to read a romantic comedy while he has the latest action/adventure/suspense flick blaring. So why did I choose to review Suzanne…
Our mystery Pandora for February is the much anticipated The Defiant Hero by Suzanne Brockmann. When Meg Moore’s daughter and grandmother are kidnapped by terrorists, Meg is forced to kidnap a terrorist from a rival group. Navy SEAL John Nilsson is called in to help. He and Meg have met before, when she was married…
If, like me, you’ve got a weakness for a man in uniform, Suzanne Brockmann’s latest single-title release The Defiant Hero should hit the mark for you. It’s chock-full of all the things she does so well: intricately woven multiple plotlines, ripping dialogue, intrigue, adventure, and three (count ’em, three!) love stories, past, present, and (I…
Life, as he knows it, is over for soon-to-be-former Navy Lt. Alan “Frisco” Francisco. His leg is shot, and with it, his life as a U.S. Navy SEAL, which is his entire identity. He doesn’t want to teach, as has been suggested to him, he is pushing so hard in his therapy sessions that he’s…
And in honor of Memorial Day, check out all our romances with soldiers as leads! I recently completed my collection of Suzanne Brockmann’s Tall, Dark and Dangerous series and I’ve started reading them in order. Talk about a feast! There is such consistent quality in these books. It was a joy for me to meet…
True Devotion by Dee Henderson is an old-fashioned love story, which takes place against a background of modern-day treason and nuclear espionage. Kelly Jacobs lost Nick, her Navy SEAL husband, three years ago in a “training accident,” which she knows means he was killed during a top secret mission. His best friend, Lt. Joe Baker,…
For years I’ve been searching for the perfect romance novel. The one I can give to my husband and say, “Here, read this and then tell me romance novels are fluff.” What I’m searching for could well be the Holy Grail of all romance novels, because if the first one I give him fails, he…
Sandra Kitt is excellent in writing about the races in all of the varied forms we experience them today. Her heroine, Dallas Oliver, is biracial. She and her white best friend, Valerie, are now in their early thirties and have been bound together since they were in grade school. Dallas is a journalist for a…