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REVIEW: The Privateer by Danielle Thorne

REVIEW: The Privateer by Danielle Thorne

Dear Ms Thorne, I’ll come right out and admit that this book took me a long time to get into. There’s a huge cast of characters and while this normally doesn’t bother me, here I felt adrift for ages before I finally began to get a handle on them. And not only was I adrift(…)

REVIEW: High Seas Stowaway by Amanda McCabe

REVIEW: High Seas Stowaway by Amanda McCabe

Dear Ms. McCabe, Last year when I read your book “A Sinful Alliance,” the secondary Italian character Balthazar Grattiano caught my eye. Well, he and the Tudor setting. So I was a happy woman when I learned that he was going to get his own book and that it would take place on the early(…)

REVIEW: The Pirate Bride by Shannon Drake

REVIEW: The Pirate Bride by Shannon Drake

Dear Ms. Drake, It’s about time I tried one of your books. I do believe I actually have a few in my ever growing TBR book mountains but this is the one I chose. Why? Because (drumroll) it’s A Pirate Book! I was so excited when I saw the title and cover (though it doesn’t(…)

REVIEW: Shipwrecked and Seduced by Amanda McCabe

REVIEW: Shipwrecked and Seduced by Amanda McCabe

Dear Ms. McCabe, I think this is an example of one of the best titles I’ve seen in a long time. Why? Because it basically covers just about everything in the plot. Like the first of the new Harlequin Undone line I read, “Libertine Lord, Pickpocket Miss” by Bronwyn Scott, it’s a short story –(…)

REVIEW:  Unlaced by Jaci Burton, Jasmine Haynes, Joey Hill, Denise Rossetti

REVIEW: Unlaced by Jaci Burton, Jasmine Haynes, Joey Hill, Denise Rossetti

Unlaced, as you might have guessed by the number of authors in the title of the post, is an anthology. It is an erotic romance anthology of three contemporary stories and one paranormal contemporary story. I admit that I did not read the last story by Denise Rossetti. I just haven’t been in the mood(…)

Harlequin Lightning Reviews, The Sarah Mayberry Edition

Sayuri commented in my Harlequin (not so) Lightning Reviews last week that she enjoyed Sarah Mayberry. I bought three of her books at Fictionwise: Amorous Liaisons, Island Heat, and Anything For You. The thing I like most about Mayberry’s characters is their self honesty and the sense that these individuals could be real people. They(…)

CONVERSATIONAL REVIEW: Forbidden Shores by Jane Lockwood

Dear Readers, Just as I had finished reading Forbidden Shores by Jane Lockwood (a pseudonym for Janet Mullany) and was getting ready to review it, I had a conversation about the book with my good friend Jennie F., who had also recently read it. Jennie’s comments were so insightful and thought provoking, and I enjoyed(…)