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REVIEW:  A Bride for the Maverick Millionaire by Marion Lennox

REVIEW: A Bride for the Maverick Millionaire by Marion Lennox

Dear Ms. Lennox, From the wonderful descriptions in this book, I’d say that you enjoyed yourself on your cruise through the same locations. Only I hope you and your DH didn’t go overboard and need to consider whittling a waddy then adding roasted lizard to your menu. Book two in the “Journey through the Outback”(…)

REVIEW: The Charm School by Susan Wiggs

REVIEW: The Charm School by Susan Wiggs

Dear Ms. Wiggs, Your book, The Charm School (1999), was suggested to me one night whilst I was prowling around on Twitter looking for answers. I had asked for suggestions of books with ugly heroines. Ugly, mind you, not plain. Plain means that at some point in the novel there will be a paragraph in(…)

REVIEW: I Kissed an Earl by Julie Anne Long

REVIEW: I Kissed an Earl by Julie Anne Long

Dear Ms. Long, Violet Redmond is young, beautiful, and bored. It seems that no matter what she does, her popularity with the ton will not fade. Suitors flock to her side, even though she once threatened to cast herself into a well when arguing with one of them. In the next to last book in(…)

REVIEW: Burn by Linda Howard

Dear Ms. Howard: I liked this book but I think it is important for a reader to view it more as an adventure book than a romance on although there is a strong romance. It lacks the emotional intensity of prior Howard works, but it was engaging. There was a certain instruction manual feel to(…)

REVIEW:  Kidnapped: His Innocent Mistress by Nicola Cornick

REVIEW: Kidnapped: His Innocent Mistress by Nicola Cornick

Dear Ms. Cornick, This is the first of your books that I’ve read, and when I began reading it last week, I couldn’t remember why I had been interested enough to pick it up, since I’m not hugely adventurous when it comes to new-to-me authors, and I haven’t had very good luck with the Harlequin(…)

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(…)