If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting! My husband is starting to get a little bit disgruntled with the number of Linda Lael Miller books I read. (Cowboys again? Why do you want to read about men who are cows? he grumbled this time. What a...

If youve ever looked back on your life and felt a nagging feeling of regret, youre not alone. The desire to start over or to be given a second chance is a universal one, and its a concept thats been touched on in innumerable creative works. Author Juliet Madison had the idea for her own do-over novel Fast Forward (Escape Publishing,...

With a fair chunk of romance novels under my belt now, Ive developed a few tentative hypotheses and correlations about the genre. One of these is that the more ridiculous the heros name, the more fun the book. (I remember fondly a book last year involving a hero called Obediah Dyer Straits.) If this correlation holds true, then with...

I have to say that on the whole I dont associate hospitals with romance, perhaps because generally the time Ive spent in hospitals has been visiting the ill, the infirm and the gratuitously sillythe last largely being that subset of the world that is my husbands family, a group who manage to get themselves into all sorts of bizarre...

  Yesterday I rhapsodised over a romance featuring (not involvingtheres quite a difference there in terms of both semantics and legality) a mischievous pug called Tank. The book that found itself at the top of the TBR was this two-in-one from local author Marion Lennox, and curiously enough, dogs feature in both stories contained within this...

I know that I often come across as a grumpy contrarian yelling at kids to get off my lawn (well, I would if I had a lawn), but Im quite willing to toss aside all of my curmudgeonly angst for the right book. I have certain expectations for certain genres, and when it comes to romance, I want to be able to soak in a narrative bubble bath. I want to be...