Note: This review contains series spoilers. We get many review submissions here at AAR and sometimes a book will slip under the radar of both reviewers and readers and, with a series this good, that’s almost a crime. I discovered Deanna Raybourn’s Silent series late last year and quickly read Silent in the Grave and…
Several months ago, I picked up Marianne Stillings’ Arousing Suspicions based on Lisa Gardineer’s DIK review. Satisfaction picks up several months after its predecessor, featuring the brother of that book’s hero. This is a fun and suspenseful read, but don’t be fooled; there’s a surprising amount of depth as well. After KALM-TV’s star television chef…
Witch In the House is the promising beginning of a series about three best friends whose husbands mysteriously disappeared after an ice storm six years earlier. Though the circumstances that put the hero and heroine together are quite sad, this is a story in which I truly believe in the couple’s HEA, which, I might…
Why haven’t I been reading Jo Goodman? That will be the question floating through many minds when they pick up If His Kiss is Wicked. I’m certainly pondering it. I’m going to turn dictator on this one occasion because you must, simply must read this. Restell Gardner is a man of many talents; a man…
Why, Oh Why is it that previously wonderful series’ take a dramatic downhill turn when moving to hardcover? I have waited not too patiently for each installment in the Hollows series and never been truly disappointed until now. With A Few Demons More I feel like the author chopped up the characters and threw them…
It seems to be commonly accepted among most romance readers that an author’s single-title books are better than any category romances she may have written. So it may sound absurd (or just like my typical foolishness) when I say I prefer just about all of Jennifer Crusie’s series books over her longer single-titles. That’s especially…
Open Secret is more of an exploration of the adoption experience than it is a romance, but Janice Kay Johnson skillfully explores the emotional upheaval inherent in human relationships. Suzanne Chauvin was six years old when her parents died. Her aunt and uncle were prepared to take on her care, but not that of her…
The Trouble with Valentine’s Day takes the reader back to Gibson’s fictional town of Gospel, Idaho for a second visit. This is a pretty typical Rachel Gibson story with its ex-athlete uber-alpha hero and attractively insecure heroine in the midst of a life change. I was glad to read it – I’m a sucker for…
In Tamara Sneed’s All The Man I Need, a physically-scarred man finds his match in an emotionally-scarred woman. It is a quick-moving romantic suspense novel that takes the reader on fun ride. Lana Hargrove owns her public relations firm and she has spent her life recreating her past and denying her connections to her father,…
Patti Berg’s I’m No Angel is exactly the kind of book that’s made for summer. Light and frothy, it’s exactly what most readers think of when they’re looking to while away a lazy afternoon. P.I. Angel Devlin is at the top of her game, so when someone driving a Jeep tries to follow her, she…