From the category archives:
The Plague (Running Press 2009) by Joanne Dahme is a historical fiction, young adult novel. The hardcover contains 272 pages and has a list price of $16.95 with the cheapest ebook price I’ve seen of $9.99 at Amazon (Kindle) and B&N (Nook).
The purchase of this ebook was an impulsive one. I’d read a positive review of it somewhere […]
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Continue Reading Brace yourselves. I’m actually reading the categories I bought several years ago. This is not a reread. If you have read this book and have fond memories of it, then hit the back button because you’ve been warned.
I’ve only read _one_ other Diana Palmer and it was Coltrain’s Proposal. It was such a good read that I went out […]
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Continue ReadingOutback Surrender (2003) by Margaret Way, Harlequin Romance #3775. This guest review was submitted by fellow reader Senetra for TBR Challenge. Please take a moment to read all the other reviews of our participants here.
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Continue ReadingIf you don’t like reviews of half-finished books (in this case up to chapter 7) then don’t read any further. Moving on. Picking a category book for this month’s challenge gave me a couple of false starts, the first one being Ms. Lee’s A Soldier’s Homecoming(2008) (A Return to Conard County).
The book started off great and the […]
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Continue ReadingCalvary Wife by Donna Dalton is an ebook that is currently a bestseller at Fictionwise. I fell in love with the cover and was hoping this would be a good story. What I got was a formulaic romance that bored me to tears. Here is the book’s description:
A night of too much whiskey, a wrongly-numbered hotel door, and an angry guardian force dedicated cavalry captain […]
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Continue ReadingBetween the CEO’s Sheets by Charlene Sands, SD, June 2007, 192 pages. This book made a brief appearance on the e-Harlequin bestseller lists.
Ms. Sands has penned a predictable and rather stereotypical romance of revenge between estranged lovers. The story opens with Gina Grady broke and in debt. She’s in a pitiful situation. Her ex-lover conned her and left her […]
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Continue ReadingRaintree: Haunted by Linda Winstead Jones, Silouette Nocturne, book #2 in Nocturne series, published June 1, 2007 with 288 pages. Raintree: Haunted features Gideon Raintree, a member of the Royal Raintree family. The reader is told that each Raintree member has a specific gift. When the story opens we learn that Gideon’s gifts include controlling electrical energy […]
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Continue ReadingDangerous Games (Tempting Seals, Book 2)by Lora Leigh leaves much to be desired…because it lacks an original storyline and likable characters. The first page was a red flag for me when we are introduced to the two protagonists. All I thought was not again, not another “I love my best friends sister story.” Clint “Iceman” McIntyre, who is a Navy SEAL, is best friends with […]
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Continue ReadingDark Lover by J.R. Ward is book #1 in her popular Black Dagger Brotherhood series. I’m probably one of the last readers to read about the brothers from the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward. I’ll make my thoughts as brief and concise as possible: I didn’t like it and I didn’t finish it. I don’t think I can read […]
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Continue ReadingI really don’t know what I was smoking to have bought this book when the buzz surrounding it’s release was not good. However, I like to read things for myself and make up my own mind. Yes, readers can think for themselves. I thought: how bad can this book be, I wonder?
Into the Storm by Suzanne Brockmann is aptly titled. Brockmann […]
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Continue ReadingThe Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause has left me ambivalent. I had to read/skim to the end. It deals with loss and loneliness among other things. This is a YA novel and I guess I was really wanting something as captivating as by Stephenie Meyer. Thus, it’s my own fault this novel didn’t work comparing it to a novel that […]
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Continue ReadingWorking for the Devil had a few good things going for it without even reading the book: a great cover, an interesting premise and some good buzz. AngieW recommended this book to me when I was going through a reading slump. However, I found Working for the Devil’s narrative rough going, repetitive and the prose and dialogue awkward as hell — no pun intended. […]
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Continue ReadingRome from Sarah’s Child seems to invoke either sympathy or apathy from readers. Hatred, even. Guess which group I’m in? As I was reading this book, I kept muttering the word “jerk” over and over again. Why Howard would write a book like this eludes me. What was the point? That life is about risk? Selfishness? Pity?
Rome Matthews is […]
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Continue Reading I’ve enjoyed almost every romantic suspense novel by Linda Howard, including last year’s Cry No More which featured every parent’s worst nightmare. I was just as anxious as the next reader to read her next romantic suspense novel. However, Kiss Me While I Sleep by Linda Howard was a big disappointment for me.
“If you sense someone’s watching you […]
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Continue ReadingKilling Time by Linda Howard has a sci-fi twist to it but, unfortunately for me, it wasn’t well executed or even exciting for that matter. This is yet another book that I read/skimmed What is going on with Linda Howard? Wait. It must be me. I must stand alone. Here is back blurb for you:
Returning to the entrancing supernatural territory […]
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