I normally include cover art with my reviews, but I find that as embarrassed as I am that I even read this book, I would manage to be more embarrassed still were I to share the cover art. I read this book on audio (through the library for the blind), so I didn’t see the […]
Category Archives: Romance
Book Review: Dancing with Werewolves
Delilah Street is an orphan, supposedly named after the street on which she was abandoned. She lives in a world where magic is “out” and weather witches don’t just alter the weather — they report it. Delilah is a reporter at a station where “Dead Ted” — a vampire — anchors the news. Delilah’s life […]
Book Review: Midnight Crystal
Midnight Crystal represents the final installment in the Burning Lamp Trilogy, which covers all of Jayne Ann Krentz’s time periods and aliases. In each book, a descendent of Nicolas Winters, who did alchemical experiments on genetic code, is gifted with multiple talents that seem to be driving him insane. Only with the help of the […]
Book Review: The Dark Highlander
Daegus McKelter broke an oath — he used the sacred stones that allowed him to move through time for personal reasons, to save his twin brother’s life. Now, he is cursed with the spirits of 13 evil druids who want to take him over. Chloe is an antiquities expert who loves all things old and […]
Book Review: Quicksilver
Quicksilver is the latest installment in Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krentz’s Arcane Society series. This one was written under the pseudonym Amanda Quick, which means we went back to Victorian England, where doctors are coming out with revolutionary new treatments for female hysteria, and the paranormal is all the rage. Virginia is a glass light reader, […]
Book Review: Kiss of the Highlander
***Warning: This title and my review are not fit for children.*** This is pure, no-holds barred, romantic fantasy at its most basic and primitive level. This entire series is one of those guilty pleasures for me, because if you try to think about it with logic, it falls apart. But if you just let go […]
Book Review: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
Short, sweet, and poignant. Six-year-old Holly stops speaking after her mother dies in a terrible car crash, leaving her orphaned and in the care of her two uncles, Mark and Sam. Mark, who never wanted children, steps up and falls easily in love with the little girl, though he worries about her. Then one day, […]
Book Review: Son of the Morning
One terrible evening, Grace St. John, an expert in ancient manuscripts, witnesses the murder of her husband and brother. From what she overhears, she’s next — and it all has to do with the documents she’s been translating. Alone, afraid, and on the run, Grace has to use every ounce of cunning she didn’t even […]
Book Review: Scarlet Nights (Edilean #3)
Yay! My run of bad luck with Jude Deveraux is over! She was literally the first romance author I ever read, and over the years I have continued to love most of her stuff. Actually, the first book in this series was one of those I didn’t care for, and I unknowingly skipped the second, […]
Book Review: Maybe This Time
We’ve got a haunted house, traumatized children, a long-over marriage that maybe deserves a second chance, a TV reporter with too-perfect teeth and a sinister agenda, and most of all: We have Jennifer Crusie’s usual delightful style, making it all so much fun. I really enjoyed this book. The paranormal aspect integrated well into the […]