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Friday Film Review: My Cousin Vinny
My Cousin Vinny (1992) Genre: Romance/Comedy Grade: A “We’re famous for our mud.” OMG I love this movie. From the opening credits to the ending ones, this is one of the funniest and best films I’ve...
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REVIEW: Safeword: Matte by Candace Blevins
Dear Ms. Blevins, I read this book because the concept intrigued me: a female fighter who is also submissive and wants her dominant to be able to fight her for her submission and win. I’m always...
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REVIEW: Blame it on Bath by Caroline Linden
Dear Ms. Linden: Before I get too far into this review, I want to say right up front that I found Blame it on Bath quite likeable. I do so because the series that includes this book – The Truth about...
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REVIEW: Rules of the Game by Sandy James
“Kathryn West has it all–she’s a confident, bestselling author living it up in New York City. Too bad she doesn’t actually exist, and is only timid Maddie Sawyer’s pseudonym. Determined to attend her...
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REVIEW: The Way to a Duke’s Heart by Caroline Linden
Dear Ms. Linden, I’ve read all three books in your The Truth about the Duke trilogy and never much cared about what happened to said peer, the (unchallenged) Duke of Durham. The guy seems like a heel....
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REVIEW: Merry Sexy Christmas Anthology by Beverly Jenkins, Kayla Perrin,...
Dear Ms. Jenkins, Ms. Perrin, and Ms. Smith: I’m a sucker for Christmas stories, and anthologies are a great way to try out new authors, so a Christmas anthology can be a double winner for me. While...
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What Jayne’s Been Reading and Watching Recently
Most books that I finish get their own reviews but here are some that either I didn’t finish or I didn’t think warranted a separate review. The Terrorist – Caroline Cooney / Fabulous writing. Intense,...
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REVIEW: Love Irresistibly by Julie James
He’s used to getting what he wants A former football star and one of Chicago’s top prosecutors, Assistant U.S. Attorney Cade Morgan will do anything to nail a corrupt state senator, which means he...
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REVIEW: One More Valentine by Anne Stuart
When Chicago gangster James Sheridan Rafferty died in the famed St. Valentine’s Day massacre, he had no idea that Cupid’s wicked angels would give him a second chance…more than 60 years later! All he...
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REVIEW: Blood Royal by Diana Norman
Forced by Sir Robert Walpole into a distasteful marriage and then ruined by her husband’s speculation in the South Sea Bubble, Lady Cecily Fitzhenry vows revenge on the Prime Minister and all his...
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REVIEW: When Love Isn’t Enough by Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Dear Ms. Seidel, Your out of print 1984 novel, When Love Isn’t Enough (Harlequin American Romance #80), opens when three men return to the DC area from Texas, where they’ve been spending time on behalf...
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REVIEW: Suddenly One Summer by Julie James
Divorce lawyer Victoria Slade has seen enough unhappy endings to swear off marriage forever. That doesn’t mean she’s opposed to casual dating—just not with her cocky new neighbor, who is as gorgeous...
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REVIEW: Lawyer for the Dog by Lee Robinson
One of the sharpest attorneys in Charleston, S.C., Sally Baynard isn’t your typical southern belle. She’s certainly not what her mother hoped she’d grow up to be, especially since she divorced her...
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Fitzempress’ Law by Diana Norman Three modern young people commit a crime against an old woman who sends them back through time to the time of King Henry II (known as Fitzempress because he was the son...
View ArticleREVIEW: Lawyer for the Cat by Lee Robinson
Following her successful representation of Sherman the Schnauzer, Sally Baynard is happy to go back to working with humans. That is until a probate judge asks her to look into the case of a cat who’s...
View ArticleREVIEW: Devices & Desires by Pamela Sherwood
Dear Ms. Sherwood, I’ve been slowly working my way through your oeuvre because I like your voice. Devices & Desires, your latest historical romance set in 1888 England, is the first of your books...
View ArticleREVIEW: Parthena’s Promise by Valerie Holmes
England, 1815 London barrister and gentleman, Jerome Fender, has just returned to England after five years as a Captain in the killing fields of the Napoleonic Wars. With the harrowing scenes of battle...
View ArticleREVIEW: Sustained by Emma Chase
A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight. When you’re a defense attorney in Washington, DC, you see firsthand how hard life can be, and that sometimes the only way to survive is to be harder. I,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Enticing the Enemy by Jules Court
Defense attorney Erin Rafferty has to be tougher than her male colleagues to prove herself in the courtroom. A pit bull in a teacup-poodle package, her hard-earned hard-ass persona isn’t easily undone....
View ArticleREVIEW: The Unquiet Grave by Sharyn McCrumb
Lakin, West Virginia, 1930 Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P. D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical...
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