Jude Deveraux’s baffling Met Her Match features two central mysteries. The first is what happened to the heroine’s mother. The second is What Genre Is This Book, which has the cover of a contemporary romance but confused me so much that I had to perform research to make sure that was correct. In fact, I…
An AAR Top 100 Romance originally published on June 8, 1997 Back when A Knight in Shining Armor first came out in hardcover, I bought it, read it, loved it, and immediately started reading it again. I was at a friend’s house sitting by her pool one afternoon and was pronounced “anti-social” because I had…
In the Katy Perry song “Teenage Dream” she talks about how her lover makes her feel young again. While I was reading this book I was thinking about how it made me feel like I was living in an adolescent day dream – and what a horrible place that is to be when you are…
Jude Deveraux is adept at creating worlds that span many different eras and locations. It’s definitely the style in which she excels – whimsical, romantic, and never quite of this world. Even her stories lacking a paranormal aspect always feel rather fantastical. This is what sets her apart from many other writers in my mind…
The third book (follows Forever… and Forever and Always) in a series-within-a-series revolving around the supernaturally gifted Darci Montgomery, Always initially sets a fast pace with its rather suspenseful and multilayered plotline, only to repeatedly stall and, ultimately, become rather confusing. Jack Hallbrooke grew up with everything that money could buy, but without the parental…
I know Hostess Suzi-Qs are bad for me, but I can’t help it. I love ’em. Even reading the list of ingredients on the package doesn’t stop me from scarfing the darn things down – there’s something about that specific combination of chocolate cake and gooey cream that’s irresistible to me. I’ve thought about it…
Imagine, if you will, Cameron Diaz starring in The Blair Witch Project or The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and you’ll begin to understand some of the difficulties I had in reading Jude Deveraux’s latest release. I was never sure what I was reading: is the book a paranormal (there are witches and telepathy), or is…
A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux is truly the definition of a Desert Isle keeper for me. If I could only have ten books to read for the rest of my life, I would want this to be one of them. I knew this book was something special when I read it for…
Jude Deveraux’s Twin of Ice and Twin of Fire, originally published separately in 1985, have now been reissued in one volume. The two novels have parallel, simultaneous plots and work best read together. Twin of Ice describes Houston Chandler’s relationship to her husband Kane Taggert; Twin of Fire tells some of the same events from…
I started reading romance seriously a little over six years ago, and since then I have read every new book Jude Deveraux has published, and most of her backlist as well. After reading High Tide, I am starting to ask myself why I have been such a slavish Deveraux devotee. Like many of Deveraux’s recent…