unrequited-love

REVIEWS: Heat of the Moment, Heat of the Storm, Heat of Passion by Elle Kennedy

REVIEWS: Heat of the Moment, Heat of the Storm, Heat of Passion by Elle Kennedy

Elle Kennedy writes a series of novellas for Samhain Publishing called “Out of Uniform” and primarily these stories feature the romances of the Seal Team Fifteen. There are two primary storylines in these stories. The first is the friends to lovers and the second is the player who doesn’t want to settle down but in(…)

REVIEW: His Client by Ava March

REVIEW: His Client by Ava March

Dear Ms. March. I loved the excerpt for this book: prostitution! angst! unrequited love! m/m romance! It hit many of my not-so-sekrit Buttons of Hottness and Readerly Pleasure. And I very much enjoyed the book, even if I wanted to beat one of the heroes and not in a fun, sexy way. Jasper Reed, a(…)

REVIEW:  Rich and Mad by William Nicholson

REVIEW: Rich and Mad by William Nicholson

Dear Mr. Nicholson, According to the back of this book, it says that you are an award winning screenplay author of a movie called Gladiator, which I will admit to never seeing.   This explained quite a lot of things that went on in the book, but it does not change the fact that the way(…)

REVIEW: Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong

REVIEW: Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong

Dear Ms. Armstrong, I’m a long-time fan of yours. My first exposure to your work was Bitten, the first novel in your Otherworld series about the only female werewolf in existence, several years ago before urban fantasy took off and became the sprawling subgenre it is today. I know I’ve said in the past that(…)

How do you feel about a brother marrying the sister in law?

[poll id="221"] I was at a used bookstore the other day and I came across an old Judith Duncan book. Judith Duncan used to write great stories for the Silhouette Intimate Moments and Harlequin Superromance line. One of the titles I loved was “If Wishes Were Horses” and it was about a man who loved(…)

REVIEW: Knight of Pleasure by Margaret Mallory

REVIEW: Knight of Pleasure by Margaret Mallory

Dear Ms. Mallory: I remember a number of people raving about your debut in the If You Like Debut books thread. I bought the debut book, Knight of Desire, but by the time I got around to reading it your second book, Knight of Pleasure, was out. So I read that one first. While I(…)

REVIEW: Sheikh’s Forbidden Virgin by Kate Hewitt

REVIEW: Sheikh’s Forbidden Virgin by Kate Hewitt

Dear Ms. Hewitt: Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. The thing that stuck out most in my mind at the end of the story was how apt the title was. The story really was about the sheikh’s forbidden virgin. This is part of The Royal House of Karedes miniseries.   These series(…)

REVIEW: Wicked All Day by Liz Carlyle

REVIEW: Wicked All Day by Liz Carlyle

Dear Ms. Carlyle: I have read you since your debut in 1999 with My False Heart. My False Heart remains high of my favorite romances of all time and it is the book against which I measure all of your other titles. The story was so fresh at the time. The heroine, Evie Artevalde, was(…)

REVIEW: Mistress to the Merciless Millionaire by Abby Green

Dear Ms. Green: This worked for me on most levels although I know that a non fan of Harlequin Presents would probably be turned off by the manufacturered angst and the constant barrage of distrust and misplaced accusations from the hero. Kate Lancaster, a beautiful young woman, has been unable to get over a kiss(…)

REVIEW: Since the Surrender by Julie Anne Long

Dear Ms. Long: I took a small break from reading your books, albeit unintentionally, a couple of years ago. I think once a reader falls off the bandwagon of an author, you start hesitating to start reading her again, believing that you must have stopped for a very good reason. My reason for stopping, though,(…)

Friday Film Review: Paperback Hero

Friday Film Review: Paperback Hero

Paperback Hero (1999) Genre: Romance Grade: B

REVIEW: Wicked Little Game by Christine Wells

Dear Ms. Wells: This book was described to me as Indecent Proposal meets White’s but it really is an inspection of the meaning of love. Marquess of Vane has wanted Lady Sarah Cole for years. He met her too late, though, because she was married to Brinsley Cole at the time. Sarah’s marriage was falling(…)

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(…)

REVIEW: The Widow by Carla Neggers

Dear Ms. Neggers: I saw from your website that this is your first hardcover. I read your book directly after finishing Linda Howard’s Cover of Night. You would suppose that given La Belle Howard’s huge popularity and my love for many of her works, your placement in the reading order would result in a negative.(…)