B- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Denver / football / interracial relationship / NFL11 Comments
Dear Alexa Martin, Marlee Harper is a biracial woman living in Denver with her NFL-player partner, Chris Alexander. Chris and Marlee have been together since she was sixteen and they were both in high school together – which perhaps explained a little of why she stayed so long with him. ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsdysfunctional family / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / secrets / Victorian / Victorian EnglandComments Off on REVIEW: The Matrimonial Advertisement by Mimi Matthews
She Wanted Sanctuary… Helena Reynolds will do anything to escape her life in London, even if that means traveling to a remote cliffside estate on the North Devon coast and marrying a complete stranger. But Greyfriar’s Abbey isn’t the sort of refuge she imagined. And ex-army captain Justin Thornhill—though he ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / autobiography / cats / dogs / First-Person / horses / non-fiction / veterinarianComments Off on REVIEW: Drinking from the Trough by Mary E. Carlson, DVM
Mary Carlson didn’t start out to become a veterinarian, let alone the owner and caretaker of cats (many), dogs (two, both huskies), and horses (some with manners, some without) in Colorado. She was a suburban Chicago girl; all she knew of the American West came from the stories her uncle, ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsContemporary / dual-timeline / England / Historical / historical paranormal / Time-Travel / Tudor-England / Womens-Fiction8 Comments
Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait—identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / abuse survivor / American historical / dysfunctional family / family feuds / family relationships / Historical / Small Town Romance / Sutton Family / Western RomanceComments Off on REVIEW: Into the Light by Ellen O’Connell
Kansas 1899. Deborah Sutton barely remembers her family’s feud with the Van Cleves. Her mother died that summer, and her father was killed. Nothing else mattered to seven-year-old Deborah eighteen years ago. Still, Deborah knows the Van Cleves tried to steal her family’s land, and she despises them for it. ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsHockey Romance / Pop Star HeroineComments Off on REVIEW: Playing Hurt by Kelly Jamieson
Dear Ms. Jamieson, Last year I read one of your previous hockey-related books, Slap Shot. I gave it a C+ and noted in my book log that it was readable but lacking in excitement and had “too much emphasis on sex.” The book had a very unusual hero-only narration until ... more >