Rosario's Reading Journal

The Boyfriend School , by Sarah Bird is probably the book that has spent the longest time on my Wish List . I recently found an old file on...

I can't remember the last time I reread Prince of Darkness , by Barbara Michaels . In fact, I could barely remember what Prince of Darkn...

Tell Me Lies was my first Jennifer Crusie , and it started me collecting her entire backlist (or, at least, the ones not prohibitively expe...

I love Suzanne Brockmann . There's something about her writing that just clicks with me, so much that I venture into a genre I don'...

Kristin Hardy is one of the very, very few authors whose Harlequin Blaze releases I make a point not to miss. As Bad As Can Be ( excerpt )...

I finally got a copy of Chesapeake Blue , the book Nora Roberts wrote some years later to add to her Chesapeake Bay trilogy, so I decided t...

Patriot's Dream , by Barbara Michaels was written in 1976, in time to celebrate the bicentennial of the American Revolution. Jan Wilde ...

No Man's Mistress , is the sequel to Mary Balogh 's More Than a Mistress . It's hero is the youngest Dudley, brother, Ferdinand....

Mary Balogh can be hit or miss for me (though the last couple of her books that I've read and reread have been all good), but when she...

Kinsman's Oath ( excerpt ), by Susan Krinard is set in the same world as the author's short story in the Out of This World anthol...

Since Barbara Mertz is no longer publishing any books under the Barbara MichaelsI pseudonym, I am on a perpetual lookout for books that ar...

Faking It ) excerpt ), by Jennifer Crusie is a sequel (or rather, a kind of spin-off, as Crusie calls it) to Welcome to Temptation , one o...

I can't remember why I decided to reread Forbidden ( excerpt ), by Jo Beverley , but I suppose I must have read something about it in o...

Adele Ashworth 's Winter Garden is one of my favourite romance novels ever, it even came in in the top 5 (or thereabouts, I don't h...

Truth or Dare , by Jayne Ann Krentz is a sequel to Light in Shadow . It follows the same protagonists, Zoe and Ethan, as well as the variou...

I read Laura Kinsale 's For My Lady's Heart last year and it was a revelation. I hadn't liked the only Kinsale I'd read unt...

I love Judith Ivory 's books so much that I've been saving them for a rainy day. However, packing up for my vacation I took a good l...

Patricia Rosemoor 's Improper Conduct is the middle book in her Chicago Heat series. Was it indecent...? Nick Novak is shocked when go...

I'm not a big fan of Westerns, but I'll read one that looks good every once in a while. The review of The Touch of Fire , by Linda H...

Tracy Grant wrote one of the only three books I gave A+ grades to last year, the wonderful Daughter of the Game (the other two were Gaudy ...