The Next Best Thing is part of Arabesque’s Ports of Call series. Each book centers around an exotic locale, in this case Venice. While I do enjoy books with interesting settings, they have to be more than a travelogue to hold my attention, and, unfortunately, this one didn’t amount to much more than that. April…
It had to happen eventually – I really had to stop reading the sixth Harry Potter. I had read it three times. My husband was starting to look at me strangely every time I picked it up, and I was quickly progressing from “enthusiastic fan” to “bordering on weird.” So to ground myself more in…
Karyn Langhorne’s Street Level is an intriguing and atypical romantic suspense novel with unusual characters and a distinct point of view. While far from perfect, I found it to be a most interesting read. Thea Morris lives and works with her best friend Chandra in the District of Columbia. The two are raising Chandra’s teenage…
It took me a long time to finish Hungry Tigress – I simpy could not get interested in it at all. Although it had an exciting beginning, the middle was slow and talky, and the ending engaged my ick factor to a very high degree. I did not care for the characters at all…this book…
C.E. Murphy makes an impressive debut with her first novel, Urban Shaman, a book that kept me up way past my bedtime. I knew I was going to be exhausted the next day, but couldn’t tear myself away from this fun ride. It was worth the lost sleep. Half-Cherokee/half-Irish Joanne Walker had little use for…
Something Like Love is a lighthearted and humorous look at the residents and town of Henry Adams, Kansas in the late 1880s. Beverly Jenkins provides us with two engaging leads – Olivia Sterling, a proper, self-employed woman, and Neil July, a train robber. Olivia and Neil find immense enjoyment in each other’s company and, of…
Francis Ray definitely has a way with words. Her word choice and writing style compel the reader to keep turning pages and in her latest novel she creates characters who are strong, interesting people. Sadly, these promising people live in a somewhat clichéd world and inhabit a book that suffers from severe series-itis with its…
The cover blurb on this book says that fans of Christine Feehan are likely to enjoy it. For once, the cover blurb does not lie. Tiger Eye reads like the offspring of a Feehan novel and an X-Men comic, and it is loads of fun. It seems that there are people in the world with…
I’ve been excited to see more series romances with interracial relationships and ethnic characters in recent months. However, my enthusiasm has waned as I’ve actually read some of them. While it’s nice to see different characters and subject matter introduced into the series world, it would be even nicer if the books were actually worth…
With a keen sense of detail and a cast of vivid personalities, Cathy Yardley’s Couch World offers a fascinating glimpse into San Francisco’s club scene. The book details the lives of three very different women. The title refers to the life of P.J., a San Francisco DJ with no permanent home. She spends every night…