Marriage of Convenience

Audio Review: First Comes Marriage (Huxtable Quintet, Book 1) by Mary Balogh

by Keira 01.22.2012

Narrator: I am on an audio book kick. I loved this narrator. Anne Flosnik is great! She makes the book come alive. It’s like listening to a movie with all of her voices. I wanted to drive more around town just for the opportunity to get further in the book! Heroine: Vanessa Dew is the [...]

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Review: Wife by Wednesday by Catherine Bybee

by Keira 01.08.2012

Hero: Blake Harrison needs a wife, yesterday, in order to complete the terms of the will of his late father. They never saw eye to eye and this is just one more thing he’s being manipulated to do, but Blake has a plan. He’s going to hire himself a bride because the last thing he [...]

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Review: To Marry for Duty (The Husband Fund, Book 3) by Rebecca Winters

by Keira 11.14.2011

This is the last book in the The Husband Fund trilogy. Heroine: Piper Duchess is the last remaining single Duchess triplet and she’s feeling it. At the advice of her shrink she bucks up and firmly places her feelings of abandonment and loneliness behind her and dives headlong into her commercial art business. She gets [...]

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Review: Darcy’s Voyage by Kara Louise

by Keira 10.18.2011

How can you get Lizzy and Darcy to meet each other without prejudice? Take them out of the country of course! By sticking them on a ship bound to the Americas, Kara Louise gives them a chance to see them for themselves… well sort of There’s still some obstacles and misunderstandings. Two years before the [...]

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My Favorite Tropes: Marriage of Convenience

by Carla F. 10.15.2011

Guest blog by Carla F. Merriam-Webster defines a trope as “a common or overused theme or device”. However, it seems to me that it can only be “overused” if it brings nothing new to distinguish itself from all the others. The one thing more satisfying than reading a romance is reading one that has your [...]

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Review: Under Her Skin by Susan Mallery

by Keira 07.29.2011

I had some issues with Cruz Rodriguez, the hero of the story. First, he’s paying his nasty evil father blackmail money like a little kid with a secret when he’s supposed to be extremely powerful and self-confident now. Second, and more importantly he eschews all contact with his daughter, Kendra. He clearly doesn’t want to [...]

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Review: His at Night by Sherry Thomas

by Keira 06.16.2011

Tired of spy lords in Regencies? If you said yes, make an exception for His at Night, because it’s not tired. It’s very much awake and zesty. Sherry Thomas has taken this subgenre of Regencies and gave it a fabulous new life… by making the Marquess a blithering idiot. Oh I see your incredulous expression, [...]

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Review: Dangerous by Diana Palmer

by Keira 06.12.2011

You can tell why Diana Palmer is counted as one of North America’s top 10 romance writers. It takes all her considerable skill to turn her tragic hero, Kilraven, into a man ready for love and romance, which she does with magnificent aplomb. When his wife and child were brutally murdered seven years ago, FBI [...]