Tag: romance
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The Location Shoot by Patricia Leavy
Ella has a bit of sexual philosophy: she says, “you should only sleep with people you’ll always love or people you’ll never love.”
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Lightning Strike by Catherine Asaro
Rating: 3/5, average This one I read with the local book club. I probably wouldn’t have picked it up otherwise, and I might have even skipped it if I didn’t know it was by a woman writer with a PhD in Chemical Physics. The cover on Amazon looks really cheesy, but the writing isn’t too…
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The Cast by Danielle Steel
Rating: 3/5, average This is the first Danielle Steel book I have read. I can count the romance books I’ve read on one hand, so this is not my usual genre, however, I got curious about Danielle Steel after reading an interview with her in Glamour in which she talks about her harsh schedule. Steel…
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Brynnde by M. Pepper Langlinais
Brynnde by M. Pepper Langlinais Rating: 4/5, good Summary: Brynnde Archambault needs to find someone to marry, else she’ll be stuck with dull Mr. Dallweather. The answer to her problem arrives in the form of handsome and witty Viscount Burbridge, but just when everything seems to be going smoothly, scandal strikes and the engagement ends.…
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A Brother’s Price by Wen Spencer
Wen Spencer’s A Brother’s Price is the story of a boy named Jerin who falls in love with a girl named Ren. It’s set in a vaguely Victorian/Wild-West/Steampunk alternate history where the ratio of boys to girls is 10:1 (because of some hand-wavey genetic quirk, more girls are born than boys). It’s an interesting world…