Florida

REVIEW: The Daddy Catch by Leigh Duncan

REVIEW: The Daddy Catch by Leigh Duncan

Jess Cofer isn’t fixing for a fight. All the single mom wants is to run her fly fishing shop and preserve unspoiled Phelps Cove, Florida, for future generations. Too bad Dan Hamilton doesn’t see it that way. It looks as if the tall, dark and sexy surgeon is in favor of handing over the endangered(…)

REVIEW: Grayton Beach Affair by James Harvey

REVIEW: Grayton Beach Affair by James Harvey

Dear Mr. Harvey, When we were contacted about possibly reviewing your first book “Grayton Beach Affair,” the WWII setting plus the intriguing German born/American raised hero who returns to the US on a mission caught my attention. Now this was something different and I looked forward to discovering how a romance could develop between Christian(…)

REVIEW: All the Good Men by Cindy Jacks

REVIEW: All the Good Men by Cindy Jacks

Dear Ms. Jacks, It was the excerpt you supplied – authors please note this really helps us to decide if we’re going to take a chance on reading the review requests submitted to us – that swayed my decision to read your novel, “All the Good Men.” The title, while not as cringe worthy as(…)

REVIEW: The Officer’s Girl by Leigh Duncan

REVIEW: The Officer’s Girl by Leigh Duncan

Dear. Ms. Duncan, Living in the South, I keep a close eye on the weather during hurricane season. Like right now with Hurricane Earl twitching around out there. Having lived through hurricane damage to my house, I will never take an evacuation order lightly. Which is what caught my eye about the blurb for “The(…)

REVIEW: The Bride and the Buccaneer by Darlene Marshall

REVIEW: The Bride and the Buccaneer by Darlene Marshall

Dear Mrs. Marshall, I’ve been waiting a long time for your next book but hot damn if you haven’t come through like a champ. We’ve got pirates, um – I mean privateers, pirate treasure, hot sexing, early Florida, lots of insects and a great match up of hero and heroine. Yep, well worth the wait.(…)

REVIEW: Make Her Pay by Roxanne St. Claire

REVIEW: Make Her Pay by Roxanne St. Claire

Dear Ms. St. Claire: I read your new book, Make Her Pay, with a bittersweet sensibility, because while the end is still open for the series, it appears that this will be the last Bullet Catcher book for a while. Which made me want to love this book, even though we only met Constantine Xenakis(…)

REVIEW: Beauty Shop Tales by Nancy Robards Thompson

REVIEW: Beauty Shop Tales by Nancy Robards Thompson

Warning: no way to avoid some spoilers Dear Ms. Thompson, The plot of “Beauty Shop Tales” could be taken directly from the description of this Harlequin line of books. “Through old friendships, new relationships and newfound personal strength, the heroines in these novels discover that an unexpected fork in the road can be exactly what(…)

GUEST REVIEW: Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen

Dear Jane, In the fall of 1998, in my capacity as co-editor of my high school newspaper, I interviewed author Carl Hiaasen when he came to town promote his book Lucky You. Being seventeen and totally ignorant of author-reader protocols, I more or less ambushed him at Books-A-Million, and he proved to be an astonishingly(…)

REVIEW: The Huntsmen 2: Bareback by Amber Green

REVIEW: The Huntsmen 2: Bareback by Amber Green

Dear Ms. Green, I read and enjoyed the first novel in this Hunstmen world last year. And despite being for the most part paranormaled out, when you mentioned that there would be sequels to come, I was excited. Here’s a world that is radically different from most paranormals out there and one which was fairly(…)

REVIEW: Pirate’s Price by Darlene Marshall

Dear Mrs. Marshall, This is a nice pirate romance with a more capable heroine than most “chick in pants” stories. I think it works better than most because Christine is more a thinking pirate rather than a true swashbuckling one. She tries to outwit her victims thereby making herself and her crew richer than when(…)

REVIEW: Captain Sinister’s Lady by Darlene Marshall

Dear Mrs Marshall, I’ve been looking forward to your third novel and for the most part, it doesn’t disappoint. You have a knack for portraying early 19th century Florida, giving us lots of description of the flora and fauna and politics of the age without forcing in every fact you ever learned during your research(…)