105 excerpts collected from homepage captures between 2004 and 2016. Scores are out of 10.
The old homepage never printed a full review. It printed the opening lines, the score and the reviewer's name, and sent you on to the sister site that held the rest. Those sister pages mostly did not survive, so the opening lines are what we have. They are kept here as they appeared, spelling slips included, newest first. To see how reviewers were asked to score, read the reviewer guidelines.
Wow! Christine Feehan blew me away with this latest book. Shadow Rider is the first book in a new series and I can’t wait to see what comes next. Ms. Feehan brings her unique paranormal perspe...
I love Mary Jo Putney’s books. She writes stories about heroic men and women who overcome obstacles to be together. Her books are never routine and they always end by making me smile. This latest book...
I loved this book by Pamela Mingle. I was drawn into the story from the very first page. The characters are engaging and the story has so much to recommend it. I couldn’t stop reading until the very l...
What an incredible story about the Clarkson family! This family is composed of four siblings who could not be more different. We have silent broody Belmont, unsure Rita, suave Aaron and vivacious Pegg...
Holly Jacobs is rereleasing her Fairy Godmother books. I have not read them before so was interested when this first one was rereleased. They were previously published under Holly Fuhrmann. I really ...
I loved this book so much more than I thought I was going to. This story about a woman who falls for her sister’s ex-husband just sounded so sordid and messy. While the situation is not ideal by any m...
As a warning to readers, I have to start off by saying this book is hard to read in places. It talks about the realities of what can happen to young girls in the foster system. This book is not for re...
Ashlyn Chase gives us a new book about dragons. She tells the story of the Arish dragons who have lived in a castle and caves in a small Irish town for centuries. Now one of the leprechauns who helps ...
Melody Anne offers the final book in her Unexpected Heroes series. I haven’t read any of the other books in this series, but didn’t find that that mattered all that much when reading this one....
Anna Bradley starts off her new series with a bang! Everything about this novel is a delight. She has wonderful characters that struggle against their roles and who others think them to be. There is p...
Ines Saint returns us to the town of Spinning Hills, Ohio and the Amador brothers. She pulls in all the joy and heart from the first book in the series and adds to it. You do not need to have read th...
Rachel Lacey gives us a wonderful story about finding love in a most unexpected way in this latest book in her Love to the Rescue . She mentions the characters from the other books in the serie...
Laura Griffin had done it again in this latest book in her Tracers series. Once again, she has created the perfect blend of suspense and romance that keeps her readers guessing until the last minute. ...
I’ve found a new author! This book is the first one I have read by Jennifer Dawson and I loved every minute of it. She has a fabulous sense of humor and an easy writing style. Never mind the fact that...
I have read some of J. R. Ward’s previous books and they were all paranormal so I was very excited to see what her contemporary book would be like. I really like her writing style and in her latest se...
Lauren Layne’s new series starts off with a stunning debut. This series centers on a family of NYPD officers. There are 4 sons and 1 daughter in the family. The patriarch is the former Police Commissi...
I loved every minute of this story! The characters are wonderfully flawed and yet still looking for love and acceptance. This story was one that I couldn’t put down because I just had to know how ever...
I’ll be honest--the premise of this book made me a little hesitant about reading it. A man who wakes up and paints pictures of his past lives sounds more than a little far-fetched and I just wasn’t su...
Mary Balogh has done it again! She has written an amazing story about the men and woman of the Survivors’ club. This is the 6th book in the series and is just as wonderful as all the others. Mary Bal...
Macy Beckett takes us back to the bayous of Louisiana in her latest book. This story is a sequel to the book Make You Mine so we get to catch up with all the Dumont boys and their riverboat. ...
Thank goodness the second book in this series has come out. I loved the first book and the second one is just as fabulous. I loved every minute of this new adventure with Zach and Clare. If you misse...
Julie James once again takes us into the world of the FBI in her latest romantic tale. As with the other books in this series, Julie James has a remarkable ability to make the agents of the FBI human...
WOW! Honestly, that is the only word for this amazing story of two people who seem to have a million obstacles in their way on the path to true love. Ms. Knightley pulls her readers into her new serie...
***Warning: This review will contain information from the first book so don’t read it if you haven’t read the first amazing book in this series yet! I absolutely loved the first book in this series...
I have read some of Robin D. Owens’ Celta series and really enjoyed the books. This book is a departure and beginning of a new series. I loved the change. This book is definitely paranormal with ghost...
This is the first book by Reese Ryan I have read and I am impressed by how many different elements she is able to put into her story. Not only does she cover a lot of different issues, but she blends...
Mary Balogh brings us a real sense of Christmas in each of these five short stories set during the season. Her love of romance and the magic of Christmas is apparent in each story as we see the magic...
Once again Carly Phillips takes us to Serendipity and the townspeople who live there. She has a way of making this town come to life and of making her readers care about her characters. For fans of th...
'Twas the week before Christmas and all was being readied for the guests and the inn owner was in her element. Holly Tate is in a heightened state of celebrating. Christmas Eve is finally the day s...
It is the ideal setting for a wedding, the place they met. Everyone is worried about the groom not arriving but the bride is not concerned. She knows he will arrive when he can. After all she has the ...
Adrienne Giordano brings us the latest in her Private Protectors series. This story focuses on Jackson Lynx. He is the VP at Taylor Security and has recently left his high-powered D.C. job to move t...
Abigale Applegate was a child star, but she left the business at the age of 17 and hasn’t looked back. Now she runs a successful catering business in Tucson, Arizona and is making progress on her life...
Once again Julie James takes us into the world of the FBI and attorneys. Her latest offering is a delight to read with relatable characters and plenty of romance. This book would be a great vacation b...
I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this book. I know that Stephanie Tyler is a great romantic suspense author, but when I read the book jacket, the only characters mentioned were a soldier and h...
Once again Michele Bardsley brings us into her world of the paranormal and Broken Heart, Oklahoma. She continues the story where we last left her characters and adds more individuals to this motley c...
What a fun and exciting story! This is the first book by Kelly Fitzpatrick that I have read and it was a delight. I loved every minute of it. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next. Ale...
Returning to England was never in the cards for Derick Aveline, Viscount Scarsdale. When he left, he planned to go to France and maybe live a life there and then war started. He found himself caugh...
What would you do if you lived in a world where vampires were not only known, but out in public? If they were your neighbors? Iris Scanlon decides to create a company where she becomes a daytime vamp...
We dream of a wealthy benefactor who gives us the money we need to follow our dreams. We want to be free to pursue those things which make us the most happy and money certainly allows us the freedom ...
Once again, Sherryl Woods delivers an amazing story of love, family and friends. Her trademark style makes this book a delight for her readers. New readers will know immediately what type of author ...
I am so sad to see the trilogy of the Blackthorn Brothers end. I have loved every one of these books and this third and final story is my favorite. Finally, we learn what has been haunting Don John B...
It is an adventure in Spain and on the high seas that is the focus of this story. This is the third book in the series but is a stand-alone. This is Sebastien’s story and we find out why is a privatee...
It is no secret that the fashion industry can be cruel and unkind. It is our choice as to whether to ignore or take those images and dwell on them. Dianne Herrington is The Face of her grandfather’...
This is the fourth instalment in the Inferno Club series. This one features rogue agent, Drake, Earl of Westwood and what a journey the reader has with Drake. Emily Harper is a woodsman’s daughter ...
In Heather Graham’s latest book, we travel to San Antonio, Texas and learn a lot about the history of the Alamo. She intertwines a ghost story, a serial killer and a romance together in this amazing ...
I wasn’t sure what to expect of a story set in 1030-1050 AD Scotland. I don’t remember the last time I read a book set in this particular time period. If you aren’t sure about it either, this is def...
WEIGHT OF THE CROWN by author Christina Hollis is released by M&B Modern as well as Harlequin Presents. Alyssa Dene is personally recommended as the best in the job and she takes on the duties of n...
Sharon Lathan transports her readers to the world of Jane Austen in her latest book about the Darcy family. In this book, she focuses on Georgiana Darcy, a young woman traveling Europe with her famil...
Cindy Gerard’s latest novel takes us to the mountains of Peru and the slums of Sierra Leone. We get to travel the world with her characters as they strive to stop an arms dealer from completing his l...
The concept of illegitimacy was one that people didn’t really talk about in Regency England. If you were unlucky enough to be born on the “wrong side of the blanket”, you knew better than to attempt ...
ORDINARY GIRL IN A TIARA from author Jessica Hart is from the new Harlequin M&B line, RIVA. Caroline Cartwright, hurt by her fiancé leaving her for someone sexy and fun, felt herself to be too ord...
The Victorian era interest in the occult and relics from the ancient worlds star alongside a dark and mysterious romance in Seduction & Scandal by Charlotte Featherstone. Aspiring novelist Isabel...
GIRL IN A VINTAGE DRESS is the latest presentation by author Nicola Marsh for Harlequin Romance series. Lola Lambert grew up in a household of fashionable women. Her supermodel sister and their fas...
Katharine McMahon takes her readers on a journey through the life of a female lawyer in the Post WWI era. Not only do we get to experience how difficult life is for women trying to work outside the h...
A need for revenge meets its match when Genevieve and Alexander spar but each needs the other to fulfil a plan. The best laid plans of the pair backfire even when they are aware of what the other want...
Linda Lael Miller opens her new trilogy with a bang. Her story encompasses all that we love about the West—cowboys, strong women, danger, outlaws and the compassion the people feel for each other. Her...
I am in awe! Delilah Marvelle has again created a masterful story about the power of love with unconventional characters. She manages to take the Regency era and breathe new life into it with informat...
In this compelling novel about what life was like in 1880’s Arizona territory, Lisa Plumley allows her characters to tackle some pretty deep issues. Yet the whole book is written with her signature hu...
How can someone repair their life after such disappointment? How can someone bring themselves to keep going and to care again? This is the basic premise in this story about love betrayed and a love fo...
The underworld is a place of gambling, alcohol and prostitutes. It can be a place of danger. Any player who dares to enter the dens to gamble needs to be aware and be prepared to suffer the consequenc...
Can we always keep our promises? Can we fulfil our dreams and all that we want for ourselves and those around us? These are some of the themes that flow through this story by Ms Wiggs. Daisy Bellam...
Margo Maguire takes her readers on a journey through history with this latest book. She has such a way of making the Regency era come alive that we feel as though we are there witnessing the events u...
I found many humorous sections in the book and was entertained by this. There was also the serious aspects of the book, the blackmail, murder and blood lust. Ms Rowan has used humor to defuse some asp...
This is a gripping tale of a kidnapped child and the family left behind trying to find him and the devastation the family feels and the challenges for the family. There are enough twists in this story...
I loved this story. I had to keep reading to the end as I learned more about Sophie and Simon and followed their relationship. There really is a battle of wits between Sophie, the young woman, and Sim...
This is the third story in the trilogy and what a wonderful read it was. So much so that I really have to read the first two, yes I admit it, I haven’t read them but will do so, and soon. One of the t...
I enjoyed reading this book, I have not as of yet read any of the other books in this series, but it made me want to run out and buy them. The book held me captive, I did not want to put it down. I fe...
In the latest installment of Ms. Galenorn’s Otherworld series The Sisters of the Moon, Delilah takes center stage as she and her sisters continue to look for and protect the spirit seals. They have r...
Ivar was cursed by the witch, Cwen, when he rode out in the name of his liege in order to find the treasure that she and her son guarded. In the battle, her son was killed and so Cwen cursed the nine ...
Emma Jamison enjoyed her job as butler to the wealthy. She ran her own business and supplied butlers to those who needed them. She was choosy about whom she worked with and loved making sure that ev...
Lana Hancock has had a rough few years. 18 months ago she was kidnapped by terrorists in Armenia and barely escaped alive. After recovering from the multiple broken bones and learning to walk again,...
Cassidy Burke’s mother died when Cassidy was young so she never learned the family secret. Therefore, Cassidy was quite surprised to find out that she was a Demon Duster on her 32nd birthday. Now she...
Payback is the third book in Jasmine Cresswell’s trilogy about a man who is apparently murdered in a Miami hotel room with his mistress. Only after his apparent death does his bigamist lifestyle come...
Have you ever wondered how Anne Boleyn became the wife of Henry VIII? What was her childhood like and was she the unfeeling woman that history makes her out to be? Mademoiselle Boleyn is the story o...
JV Love brings readers the intense story of the siege of Leningrad in the well-researched epic The End of Sorrow . Love brings full brilliant color to the trials and tribulations of the ...
Just outside of New Orleans plantation owner Damien du Bourg makes a deal for immortality with demon Rosa Francis. In exchange for immortality he will continue to live a life of depravity and bring o...
A SERIAL AFFAIR takes readers on a suspenseful ride in this serial killer mystery thriller. Agent Marina Santos is partnered with former love interest Officer Reed Crawford to track down a serial kill...
Deidre of the Languedoc is descended from Mary Magdalene; daughter of a high priestess who was shamed when the Philosopher’s Stone was stolen by a magician. Deidre wishes only to restore the stone to...
In this fourth installment of her Grayson family series author, Francis Ray puts Pierson in the bull’s eye of his mother’s matchmaking schemes. His carefree lifestyle suits him to a tee; wom...
I'm in a quandary as I think about COUSIN HARRY. Because it's a well written, well plotted story, well "cast" with interesting characters, and a hero and heroine who have a romance with lots of feeli...
A Medieval tale of deception, secrets, and loyalty tested pits Soraya al-Din and Marc de Valery against each other, with Soraya on a quest to destroy the noble Knight that killed her uncle, and is ...
Private Detective and former SEAL Nick Broussard has always had it tough and now he’s getting involved in one of his toughest cases yet. Recently kicked off the New Orleans police force, he has spent...
When Lucy Armstrong, director, agrees to help her sister and ex-husband in the final days of shooting an action movie, she could never have imagined the swamp full of trouble she would be stepping int...
Sophie Lamoureaux is off to England to find out about a past she has no recollection of; she has a sister, and her guardian has kept it from her all these years. Raised with Claude Lamoureaux since s...
875 Kent Lady Elene bargained for her parents’ freedom by becoming the mistress of the brutal warrior, Kraka. Recently escaped from the monster, she seeks protection from exiled warrior, Berg. ...
Hester Waring is literally starving; reduced to wearing her mother's worn old dresses, and will probably lose the room she's renting, but a genteel 19th-century woman doesn't let outsiders know about ...
This is one of those books that makes you believe, and reminds you of those crazed, passionate feelings of love that sometimes become remote in the mundane world. You can believe- because you can tru...
Sometimes an older romance novel like this one (originally published in 1990) is an unexpected pleasure to read; a buried treasure. Unfortunately this isn't the case with CREOLE TEMPTRESS. The her...
Lisa Jackson has been a favorite author for some time and this book just confirms again why she is a great storyteller. There is much to love with rich characters, different landscapes and some intima...
Marty Stepp is coming home to Millbrook, Maine after leaving behind her life in New York. The fact she has left her career as a super model behind her along with Rod is only the half of it. She is h...
Nora Roberts’ latest effort is much different from anything I’ve read by her. This is a dark suspense with rather violent undertones. The violence is not used for shock factor but perhaps could have...
Ms. Chase has penned an entertaining story with engaging characters which start off a bit stiff but eventually warm up to be likeable. Benedict Carsington is Viscount Rathbourne and fancies himself...
I fell a little in love with Duncan in "Highland Wishes" and was thrilled that this guy was going to get his own story! As with her past effort Ms. Burroughs has delivered yet again with this wonderfu...
“Complete one more assignment and then I can get out.” Mackenzie (Mac) Harmon is the very best assassin that money can buy. However, she wanted out. Mac wanted to take her young friend, Bobby, and ...
Cheryl Holt is known for her passionate love stories that almost always revolve around the most decadent of hero’s. Her characterization almost always included a sassy, smart lady who knows her heart...
If you are looking to purchase this book solely for the Anita Blake entry from Hamilton you will be sorely dissapointed. Those wanting an entertaining read about the many worlds of vampires, skip ove...
I love Rahcel Gibson! I've bought everyone of her books and I've faithfully read them all as well. Her last book "Daisy" was sad and a HUGE letdown. "Trouble" though is a HUGE step back in the right d...
Ms. Boyle's latest was a fun story but if the reader has not read the previous book "It Takes A Hero" they may come away slightly confused. Is this a reason to overlook this read? Good heaven's NO! Th...
Established by Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, St. Jude’s Abbey is a not only a sanctuary of prayer but of training in arts of knights and defense. Sequestered behind the walls of St. Jude’s, Avisa de Ve...
Facing one's past proves to be more than Mia Luchese ever counted on. A promise made to humor her grandmother takes an unexpected turn when rumors become real... And reality bites, literally. Colin Fo...
APRIL MOON is an anthology with an interesting concept – three stories taking place in April 1803 under an April Moon. Sailor's Moon by Merline Lovelace is a spicy sexy tale about the widow Lady S...
Setting – England 1750 --- Ninian Malcolm lived in a cottage on the outskirts of the village of Wystan, and that one word – outskirts – more or less described her life up to that point. When ...
Setting – England, 1816 --- Lady Cassandra Howard, was the daughter of a Marquess, though her upbringing was not what one would expect for one of that noble a birth. In fact she had never had ...
Definitely Lorraine Heath is on my preferred author list. Whenever this talented author releases a new book, I automatically buy it. An Invitation to Seduction offers solid support for ...
Chase the Moon by Dinah McCall (also known as Sharon Sala) is a romantic suspense that is not particularly romantic nor suspenseful. When Jake Baretta’s twin brother John is killed in an un...
One name dominates: Leah Storz wrote 56 of the excerpts on this page, most of them from 2011 on. Heather Kopp, Kristi Ahlers and Lettetia Elsasser follow a long way behind. If you are tempted to join their tradition, the Writers' Desk has a longer guide on writing a review readers will use.
Most communities scored from 1, the lowest, to 10, the highest. The Young Adult community used 1 to 5. A few archived excerpts have no score because the original page left it blank.
Reviews marked official came from the site's own review team rather than from registered member reviewers. Both appeared side by side on the homepage.
The homepage only ever showed the opening lines of each review, with a link to the full text on the sister site. Those sister pages were not archived reliably, so the opening excerpt is what survives.
The restored excerpts run from 2004 to 2016, collected from homepage snapshots taken over those years.