Apr 17 2013
Dear Ms. Parr: I get the sense from the various internet reviews that people either love this book or hate it. I fall into the latter category. It’s not that I didn’t hate it so much as I wasn’t convinced at the end of the story that the two protagonists actually belonged together. It’s sold(…)
Apr 17 2013
The foundation of superstition is ignorance. First Officer Paul Cronin has no use for magical thinking—he’s a logical guy, a skeptic who only believes what he can see. When a new assignment on Flight 511 takes him directly through the legendary Bermuda Triangle, he’s not concerned about losing his aircraft to supernatural forces. He’s busy(…)
Apr 16 2013
Dear Ms. Rai: This was a 33,000 word novella featuring two high school + college lovers who separated and then reignited their romance. Tatiana Belikov always tried to meet the expectations of her adopted parents except when it came to one thing, her boyfriend. Wyatt Caine was a bad boy with poor prospects who worked(…)
Apr 16 2013
“Lily Sawyer flees her controlling, wealthy family in New York City for a solitary existence on Cape Cod. Three months later, a mounting anxiety binds her to the house she can no longer leave. With hurricane season approaching, Lily hires Cliff Buckley—an angry carpenter with an immediate disgust for his elitist employer—to storm-proof her house.(…)
Apr 15 2013
Dear Ms. Maxwell I liked the first one in this series, Seducing Cinderella, but this was entirely too predictable for me. The tag line says it all. “Seven days. And seven rules to break…” Vanessa McGregor travels to Hawaii to make sure that her best friend, Lucie, has the wedding of her dreams. Lucie can’t(…)
Apr 15 2013
He’s used to getting what he wants A former football star and one of Chicago’s top prosecutors, Assistant U.S. Attorney Cade Morgan will do anything to nail a corrupt state senator, which means he needs Brooke Parker’s help. As general counsel for a restaurant company, she can get a bug to the senator’s table(…)
Apr 14 2013
Well, as usual it’s been a dog’s age since I’ve done one of these, and a lot of what I’ve read I’ve already reviewed: The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee, Unforgivable by Joanna Chambers, Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, When Maidens Mourn by C.S. Harris, Children of Liberty by Paullina Simons, That Scandalous Summer by Meredith Duran and The Gilded(…)
Apr 13 2013
Dear Ms. Kent: I’m not sure where I received the recommendation for your book but I do remember I picked it up because it was free. Ordinarily the premise – male prostitute – wouldn’t appeal to me but from the opening scene I was hooked. The heroine, Lori Addison, is a virgin and she’s having(…)
Apr 12 2013
So I decided to follow up Lord of Scoundrels with the much recommended Angel’s Blood. This was a bit of a change of pace after the last two books, being contemporary rather than historical, actiony rather than talky, and written in this century rather than the last. Although, like Lord of Scoundrels, it contains a(…)
Apr 12 2013
She was an angel at the gates of Hell. When Kenan, an incubus, finds a caged angel for sale in the Hellsgate marketplace, he sees her as a challenge. Certain that his skills in seduction will work as well on a heavenly creature as they do on mortal women, he buys Jahel, intent on having(…)
Apr 11 2013
Dear Ms. Aycart: It may have been a mistake for me to read this because while I had read a previous book in this series (Heavy Issues) it was not the book featuring the main couple in “Inked Ever After.” Thus I was lost. “Inked Ever After”, I learned after some research, is actually the(…)
Apr 11 2013
Dear Ms. Darby: Reading Entry Level Mistress was like going out on a date with a fun guy, the sort you start thinking, “Hmmm… He seems pretty cool. I think I’d like to see him again.” And then, blam, over dessert, he says, “Let me pay for dinner. I wanna get lucky.” I would have(…)
Apr 10 2013
Dear Ms. Harmon: This book was recommended by two very disparate parties and the blurb was quite intriguing; however, the blurb and the story are a bit at odds with each other. Blue Echohawk is attending her senior year of high school. One class is taught by Darcy Wilson, a history teacher who uses literature(…)
Apr 10 2013
I’m not addressing this review to Mr. Coben because the guy’s one of the world’s top-selling suspense writers–he was the first to win all of three of that genre’s top awards: the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthony. It seems unlikely he’ll see this review. I like Mr. Coben’s books especially his stand-alones. This is(…)
Apr 9 2013
Dear Ms. Bailey: I saw Mandi from SmexyBooks tweeting excerpts from this book and then she said the magic words. “He’s a dirty talker.” I went right over to Amazon and bought that sucker. There are three things that the reader should know before they start this book. First, Derek Tyler, the hero is kind(…)
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