Contemporary

REVIEW:  It Started with a Crush by Melissa McClone

REVIEW: It Started with a Crush by Melissa McClone

“Lucy Martin’s dream of marrying her Prince Charming might have fallen apart, but she’s determined to make her soccer-mad nephew’s dreams come true. But that means asking her old crush Ryland James, the legendary bad boy of soccer, to coach her nephew’s team. Injured and ordered to polish his tarnished reputation, Ryland’s looking for distraction. [...]

REVIEW:  Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray

REVIEW: Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray

“A mom in her early fifties, Clover knows she no longer turns heads the way she used to, and she’s only really missed when dinner isn’t on the table on time. Then Clover wakes up one morning to discover she’s invisible–truly invisible. She panics, but when her husband and son sit down to dinner, nothing [...]

REVIEW: Please Don’t Stop the Music by Jane Lovering

REVIEW: Please Don’t Stop the Music by Jane Lovering

This book won the RNA Romance Novel of the Year Award for 2011. The RNA Award is unique because it involves readers, authors and other industry professionals working together to award one book. I thought it would be fun to repost the review. “How much can you hide? Jemima Hutton is determined to build a [...]

REVIEW:  Rock Chick by Kristen Ashley

REVIEW: Rock Chick by Kristen Ashley

Dear Ms. Ashley: After Kati D reviewed Knight for Dear Author, I had to read it myself. It was rough but Ruthie Knox, in the comments, suggested I give Sweet Dreams a try and I did. Sweet Dreams is an interesting story and one that I am going to review later but I actually went [...]

REVIEW:  A Different Kind of Forever by Dee Ernst

REVIEW: A Different Kind of Forever by Dee Ernst

Dear Ms. Ernst, Once upon a time, in a seedy bar, many years ago, I met a man, fell for him on the spot, married him, and decades later count myself lucky to have and hold him as my own. And yet, as I read your book, the wonderful A Different Kind of Forever, I found [...]

REVIEW:  Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman   by JB Lynn

REVIEW: Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman by JB Lynn

Dear Ms. Lynn, Honestly, if someone told me a week ago that I’d be reading a book about a woman with a crappy life who survived a car wreck with only a concussion that now lets her communicate with a pet lizard and that in order to pay the astronomical medical bills pilling up to [...]

REVIEW:  Wicked Burn by Beth Kery

REVIEW: Wicked Burn by Beth Kery

Dear Ms. Kery: I had really been down on erotic romance as a sub genre for the past few months.   So much of what I had attempted to read was sex without emotion.   That type of story gets tired quickly and with many of the mainstream romances heating up, it seemed that erotic romance might [...]

REVIEW:  Say It With Diamonds by Lucy King

REVIEW: Say It With Diamonds by Lucy King

Dear Ms. King: I felt like this book started out with the heroine as a thief and the hero as a good guy and then someone told you to SEX it up and all the backstory and character got chopped for paragraph upon paragraph of mental lusting.   There was so much mental lusting, in [...]

REVIEW:  Can’t Buy Me Love by Maggie Marr

REVIEW: Can’t Buy Me Love by Maggie Marr

Dear Ms. Marr— I was wary about the plot of your short eBook, Can’t Buy Me Love. Meg Parson, executive assistant to gorgeous ruthless multi-millionaire CEO Cole Jackson, has longed for her employer since the day he hired her.  She has forced herself to ignore her feelings for him because 1) he’s a player and 2) [...]

REVIEW:  Twisted by Laura Griffin (A Different Perspective)

REVIEW: Twisted by Laura Griffin (A Different Perspective)

Dear Ms. Griffin, I’ve mentioned before that the reason I don’t read much romantic suspense is that usually one aspect or the other gets shortchanged and I end up disappointed. Your books, however, have usually been the exception. A few little things in them might niggle but I’ve come to expect that in order to [...]

REVIEW:  Once Upon a Dream by Jennifer Archer

REVIEW: Once Upon a Dream by Jennifer Archer

Can the answer to her curse lie in the dreams of the past? When Professor Alex Simon moves to Canyon, Texas from England, he welcomes the opportunity to change his locale. Not only would he be aiding his recently widowed sister, but he would have a chance to forget a failed relationship. Robin Wise is [...]

REVIEW:  The Words of the Pitcher by Kei Swanson

REVIEW: The Words of the Pitcher by Kei Swanson

“When the Cleveland Chiefs baseball team signs Kentaro Ikuta as their new star pitcher, they are faced with a man unable to speak English and a media frenzy clamoring for his words. Management turns to the renown linguistics department of Case Western Reserve University for help. Doctoral candidate Claire Ferris is chosen to act as [...]

REVIEW:  Rules of the Game by Sandy James

REVIEW: Rules of the Game by Sandy James

“Kathryn West has it all–she’s a confident, bestselling author living it up in New York City. Too bad she doesn’t actually exist, and is only timid Maddie Sawyer’s pseudonym. Determined to attend her high school reunion with a man right out of one of her racy romance novels, she plots to find a sexy bad [...]

REVIEW:  Everything You’ve Got by Erin Nicholas

REVIEW: Everything You’ve Got by Erin Nicholas

Dear Ms. Nicholas, Perhaps I wasn’t the best choice to review your latest novel Everything You’ve Got. I’m married to a physician and have worked in and around the medical field for most of my adult life. Your heroine, twenty-seven (I think) year old Dr. Kat Dayton, struck me as unbelievably immature and the problems [...]

REVIEW:  Love is a Battlefield by Tamara Morgan

REVIEW: Love is a Battlefield by Tamara Morgan

Dear Ms. Morgan, Though I’ve made the decision not to read any more Jane Austen fanfic – um, I mean homages to JA extending the lives of the characters she created, I couldn’t pass up this book which not really about any of the books JA wrote but rather about a reenactment society dedicated to [...]