I can’t remember where or how I found Bound by Your Touch (2009) by Meredith Duran, but it’s another historical romance that didn’t quite do it for me. On paper, it looks like I might like it. There’s a strong, smart, independent heroine, a tortured hero, and some mystery thrown in to spice things up. But I couldn’t get attached to the characters and the mystery didn’t make any sense to me. In the end I was disappointed. The book started out very promising. Lydia Boyce, expecting […]
Stockholm Syndrome in America
My book club chose American Heiress: The Wild Saga of Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst [it physically hurts me to not put a comma after “Crimes”] (2016) by Jeffrey Toobin. I remember seeing a famous picture of Patty Hearst holding a gun during a bank robbery, but I never really had a good understanding of what had happened to her. I was looking forward to learning more. On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore at Berkeley, was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home by […]
Love is in the stars
Star Dust (2015) by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner is another one of those romances I read that was good, but not one of my favorites. At this point, I can’t remember where I first heard of it or why I picked it up. My best guess is that it was free on Amazon Kindle (which it still is), and I decided to try it out. Star Dust is Book One of the Fly Me to the Moon series. Unfortunately, this first book did not suck me in […]
A hockey love story
When I read The Understatement of the Year by Sarina Bowen, I liked it, but I was frustrated. The repetitive drama of desperate sex followed by denial and rejection just didn’t feel very romantic to me. A fellow Cannonballer (I’m afraid I forgot who) recommended that I try Him (2015) by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy. It’s similar to The Understatement of the Year in that the romantic leads are both males and both hockey players. It was a good recommendation because I did find it both sweeter, hotter, and more […]