When I finish a book and can’t remember the main characters, it’s bad. When I finish a book and remember the main characters, but that’s all, it’s average. When I finish a book and remember the main characters, plus all the secondary characters, and wish there was a 24/7 bookstore so I could go out…
For me, there are keepers, then there are keepers. Those in the first category have some element(s) which resonated with me upon first reading, and while I don’t necessarily re-read them from cover to cover, I have favorite scenes I like to revisit once in awhile. But the books I cling to most zealously are…
This book, the third in a series of romantic James Bond ripoffs, is Very Silly. Its characters are shallow, and its plot (not unexpectedly) is ridiculous. But it did make me giggle. Canadian accountant Abel Andretti (hee – that’s giggle number one) comes to visit his sister Edie in Vancouver, only to discover she’s missing….
If you haven’t yet read Tracy Grant’s Daughter of the Game, I have a suggestion I hope you’ll consider. Before you go any further in reading this review, I recommend that you take a look instead at Colleen McMahon’s DIK Review of that incredible book. To be honest, it’s not essential to have read the…
Brenda Hiatt’s latest release, Innocent Passions, showcases her ability to weave a tale of romantic intrigue into a Regency setting that is far more than wallpaper. With a little more work on the characters and their interactions, this author’s work could ascend from pleasant distraction to true delight. Miss Rowena Riverstone has just arrived in…
I’ve read Elizabeth Thornton before, but I’ve never read an Elizabeth Thornton quite like this one. Frankly, before reading this book, I rated her as an author I enjoyed when persuaded by reviews and message board buzz to check out her latest release, but definitely not as an autobuy. All that’s changed. In Almost a…
I’m pretty biased as a fiction person, myself. I occasionally read other things, but only rarely. So it’s pure coincidence that, upon finding Spy Dust on the list of review options, I recognized one of the authors’ names as someone I’d read before, in his first book The Master Of Disguise (which, by the way,…
If Connie Brockway can do it, why can’t Hollywood? Bridal Favors is, to put it simply, as close to a perfect romantic comedy as you are ever likely to find. It’s funny, charming, unputdownable, and contains at its heart an utterly adorable romance between two equally adorable characters. And, as I laughed out loud and…
Being a romance reader in the current publishing climate is not easy. Publishers, like television execs, seem to figure if something is a success then similar books will also be successful. Thus they keep publishing those same things, over and over and over. The thing in this particular case is the Regency-set historical and lately…
The idea to review Susan Isaacs’ Shining Through came to me after some people mentioned it fondly on the Reader to Reader Message Board. As a fan of World War II-era fiction, I was thrilled when my editors gave me the go-ahead, even though the book first came out more than a decade ago in…