Despite its terrible title, A Texas Rescue Christmas isn’t a terrible book. It does too many things right to be awful, but too many things wrong to be good; it’s right in the “meh”-zone. The book takes place in Texas. There’s a rescue. It’s Christmastime. At first I assumed someone just mashed together three descriptive words and called it a title (I’ve seen worse). It turns out this is the second book in a series … Continue reading A Texas Rescue Christmas by Caro Carson →
He’s an attorney who’s running for the senate – and who has family secrets he wants to keep hidden. She’s a historian whose research might reveal secrets that could cost him his senate seat. He has a butt that looks good in tight jeans. She has one that looks good in tight skirts. Tamryn West comes to Gauthier to investigate a secret room that was recently found in Matt Gauthier’s law office building that was … Continue reading Yours Forever by Farrah Rochon →
I knew nothing about this book going into it. My selection process was, “Let’s try something new, oh, I think I might’ve read and liked something by Nancy Warren five years ago, let me give that one a try.” I didn’t even read the cover copy beforehand. That can be good, but in this case, it would have been better for me to know what I was going to read. The book opens with a … Continue reading Blueprint for a Kiss by Nancy Warren →
She’d never make it to Chicago alive. Not unless she got some coffee. Stat. Friends, if I had read those first lines before I signed up for this, I never would have reviewed this book. Nothing screams twee-I’m-a-special-snowflake-reader-fill-in than coffee pandering. Maybe I’m grumpy because I’m not a coffee drinker. I wanted to like this more than I did. I LOVE gothic novels and their melodramatic creepy goodness. But this read more like a contemporary … Continue reading The Headmaster by Tiffany Reisz →
For this year’s RITA® Reader Challenge I read Enemies with Benefits by Louisa George. It is the fourth book in the A Flat in Notting Hill series, all of which are by different authors. I finished reading Enemies with Benefits with a smile on my face — definitely a good thing. But it took some time getting there. Maybe I was expecting too much seeing as it is a short romance, and the ones I have … Continue reading Enemies with Benefits by Louisa George →
One of my favorite things about reading historical romances is stumbling upon all of the ridiculous anachronistic bits or the items/actions that are plainly in the wrong time period. So imagine my surprise and initial delight when I not only found something anachronistic in the contemporary romance Enemies with Benefits, by Louisa George, but that the anachronistic bit was the heroine herself, Poppy Spencer. It honestly feels like Poppy stepped straight out of a romance … Continue reading Enemies with Benefits by Louisa George →
I decided to read this book as it’s part of the Harlequin mini-series entitled “At Cain’s Command” for which I had read one of the prior books. The underlying storyline tying the books together is the search for a previously unknown illegitimate Cain daughter, the half sister to the male protagonists in the books. “A Bride for the Black Sheep Brother” starts with a strong prologue that solidly establishes the moment our hero, Cooper Larson … Continue reading A Bride for the Blacksheep Brother by Emily McKay →
First off, let’s take a moment to revel in the crackstastic-ness of this title, shall we? A Bride for the Black Sheep Brother. Not just the black sheep, the black sheep brother. Whose brother? Who the hell knows, but hopefully not the bride’s. (Reads Amazon description.) Goddammit. Okay, so I legitimately expected to hate this book, and it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t Earth-shattering, soul-changing good either, but it was a damn good time, so I … Continue reading A Bride for the Blacksheep Brother by Emily McKay →
I jumped at the chance to review this book, because it’s a Harlequin Presents, my category romance of choice since I was about 16. If you have read more than 1 or 2 Harlequin Presents, then much of this book will seem like familiar territory. What the Greek Can’t Resist employs many of the standard HP tropes. In fact, what makes it unique is that it uses pretty much ALL OF THEM. Like every single … Continue reading What the Greek Can’t Resist by Maya Blake →
After I finished this novella, I had a hard time deciding whether or not I liked the ending. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it wasn’t so much the ending itself that bothered me (I had been really invested in this couple getting their HEA, after all) but rather the choice the heroine had to make in order to facilitate said HEA. Since it is impossible to describe this without … Continue reading The Headmaster by Tiffany Reisz →
How deliciously ridiculous does that description sound? A long lost duke, whose day job is that of an undercover agent, falls in love with an amnesiac who happens to be the very woman he now blames for his current predicament. Of course I had to add the book to my review list–despite my crazy schedule. Unfortunately, the actual book wasn’t quite as delicious as the description. Her Unforgettable Royal Lover started okay. It’s part of … Continue reading Her Unforgettable Royal Lover by Merline Lovelace →
