This is a fairly standard fare for a Regency; rake meets innocent debutante, falls in love with her unique beauty and wit, decides to reform and eventually convinces her to marry him. It's nicely done and I liked both Laura and Gavin immensely, but there were some moments of awkward phrasing in the book that made me think that it could have benefited greatly from a working over by a good copy editor. An example: 'Eleanor had a frustrating tendency to forget that the maid they

Marie Ferrarella has written more than 200 books for Harlequin, and she's really got writing a good romance hero down pat. Eddie Montoya is the Perfect Man™. He's handsome, he's charming, he's hardworking, he loves small children and he's also capable of doing any jobs around the house which need doing because he's a competent part-time handyman. The only problem with Eddie is that he has terrible taste in women. He's attracted to Tiffany, the heroine of this book, who unfort

This is a 10,000 word (or thereabouts) short story and it's one of those stories that doesn't seem quite sure what it wants to be. Is it an erotica snippet? Not enough sex in it for that. There's not enough emotional detail for it to be a psychological suspense, we hardly get inside Kimber's head at all despite the story being told in first person. The story also needs a thorough proofreading. There was a 'door jam' instead of a 'door jamb' in the first couple of pages and at

This is too expensive. Charging the same price for an ebook as a paperback is pretty damn rude anyway, considering the relative production costs, and when that price is $10 you better damn well be selling THE definitive book in the genre. I was lucky enough to pick this up for free since I review for NetGalley, and I gave it a good read through before looking it up on Amazon to grab the image and link for this review, which is when I nearly died of shock at the price. What I

I'm rather disappointed in this book because it had a really good story which I felt was let down by the quality of the writing and the editing. The protagonists, Lars and Nikki, were well-drawn and likable and the plot was intriguing. I found myself interested in reading the next in the series to find out what happened with Lars' friend and his sister, but honestly I think I'll probably give it a miss because I found the writing really jarring. I've read several modern Harle

Needs a lot more background filling in I kind of struggled to get into this book. I found Nadia, the female lead, rather spineless and definitely clueless; seriously, who takes a job as a mailroom clerk and doesn't even know what the company she works for does? Ethan, her hero, if even more of an enigma. We never find out anything about his past other than that his father was a museum curator and he lost his sister in tragic circumstances. That's literally it. No mention of h

I'm still a bit bemused as to what actually happened in this book. We have two separate but intersecting stories; Sarah, the 'good girl' and Isabel, who is most definitely not a good girl. By the end of the book, Sarah gets her 'happy ending'. Which is nice. We're clearly meant to root for Sarah all along. And Isabel appears to get away with murdering eight people (that the reader knows about), and is on her way to Mexico with every intention of killing her abusive father and