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The Next Best Thing by Kristan Higgins (HQN 2010) is a paperback, 400 pages, contemporary romance. This review was written by fellow reader, Senetra.
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Kristan Higgins’ The Next Best Thing features pastry chef Lucy Lang Mirabelli, who has been widowed for almost five years. Her husband Jimmy, also a chef, died in a single-car accident following a trade show, and she […]
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Continue ReadingSeems that Jennifer Crusie’s publisher is reissuing some of her backlist for 2010 so BOLO. Tell Me Lies, Crazy For You and Trust Me On This, etc are all being released this year with new covers. She mentions that Tell Me Lies and Crazy For You will be coming out in trade paperback. The covers […]
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Lead Me On (Harlequin 2010) by Victoria Dahl is a contemporary romance at 352 pages with a list price of $7.99 for paperback. Lead Me On is the third book in the Tumble Creek series. The other two titles are Talk Me Down and Start Me Up.
I’ve been finally introduced to a Victoria Dahl contemporary romance. The […]
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Continue ReadingOh, Harlequin title selectors and blurb writers, you are causing people to overlook some good books with your desire to make the plots instantly identifiable to casual browsers. For real.
Luke Holloway is not her boss, he contracts for some work with Sara, the heroine, and he’s not even really a playboy in the strictest sense. […]
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Continue ReadingSmooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas (2009) is the latest contemporary romance penned by the author of last year’s Blue Eyed Devil. This is a contemporary romance set in Texas. Also, this is my first time reading a contemporary romance from this author.
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Continue ReadingLady Incognito (1987) by Courtney Ryan was apart of a now defunct imprint called Second Chance At Love where stories focused on well, second chances.
Linda Mowery, one of many reviewers with The Romance Reader was my reading twin. Almost everything she reviewed, I bought, read and enjoyed. She had rarely steered me wrong.
We corresponded by email several […]
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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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