The promise of a truly strong heroine was all I needed to pick up Beverly Jenkins’s Sexy/Dangerous. Max Blake more than lived up to her billing in one of the more solidly enjoyable 2006 romances I’ve read. Dr. Adam Gary is on the verge of a landmark scientific breakthrough that has made him the target…
I’m a sucker for a saga. That is what drew me to Gretchen Craig’s debut – Always and Forever. Taking into consideration that this is her first novel, I would say we should look forward to great things from Ms. Craig. My one issue is a big one, and that is what warranted the lower…
Successful and innovatigve Santa Fe hotel owner Faith McBride is unlucky in love and suffers from unrequited love for Brandon Grayson. Brandon is a very successful restaurateur in his own right, and he just happens to be one of Faith’s brother’s childhood friends – and Faith has been in love with him since they were…
Marta Acosta’s debut has potential. While this one didn’t knock my socks off, I will keep my eye out for future books by this author. She was able to combine Chick Lit with a hint of paranormal very well. And this was a book that improved as it went along; as much as I disliked…
If you’re looking for an easy read, a book you can speed through on cruise-control, something you can put down or pick up at will, you should probably skip Marjorie M. Liu’s The Red Heart of Jade. If, however, you’re looking for an engagement, something to really sink your teeth into, then this is the…
All through my reading Burning Tigress I shook my head at this missed opportunity. Author Jade Lee is a good writer with a strong knowledge of 19th century Shanghai. When she’s describing the Chinese scolding each other and struggling with life among English people whom they detest, she is marvelous. In this fourth book in…
Have you ever reached the end of a book and asked yourself, “Why on Earth did I just read every page of that? How many moments of my life is it that I won’t have back again?” Well, in my case, I read every word of this novel because I had to for review purposes….
Sharon Cullars spins a tale of passion, obsession and past lives in her debut novel, Again. A genre-bending book that defies easy categorization, it’s different from any other Brava release I’ve ever read. But while it is consistently intriguing, it’s also too uneven to be all that satisfying. By day, Tyne Jensen works at a…
Urban Shaman was one of my favorite Fantasy reads last year, so I was excited to get my hands on an advance copy of its sequel. These books are written in the first person, and Murphy does a very good job of portraying an edgy, snarky, and eccentric character without going too far over the…
I often get the sense there are two types of series romance readers. There are those who expect a series romance to do nothing more than provide a quick read that holds their attention for a few hours before instantly fading from memory. Then there are those, like me, who believe a series romance can…