Ms. Stewart returns to the fictional town of St. Denis, Maryland, for the seventh entry in her Chesapeake Diaries series. As a fan of the series, I enjoyed the story overall, and I loved Xe Sands’ narration. However, the story has problems that may irritate readers who haven’t read the earlier entries. Prosecuting attorney Sophie…
Mariah Stewart’s contemporary romances have been comfort reads for me for years and I was delighted when she returned to the genre after years of writing serial killer romantic suspense. Leigh gave this a B- review here at AAR in print format finding too many returning characters and a too perfect small town detrimental. I…
Narrated by Xe Sands From the moment Finn MacGowan was introduced in On Thin Ice, I wanted to hear him in audio. Who can resist the voice of an Irishman? Thanks to Tantor I only had to wait five months for the experience, and thanks to this teaser posted by narrator Xe Sands as she…
Narrated by Xe Sands Damien, Prince of the Vampires, enters the interspecies marrying loop in Jacquelyn Frank’s fourth Nightwalker entry. Damien is my favorite in this series for two reasons. First, it keeps moving, whether by dialogue or action and without the verboseness that irked me previously. Second, it could slide onto a bookshelf at…