I am terrible with the titles of romances, so let's see if I can keep these straight. So to speak.
I liked Acrobat -- divertingly fuzzy romance starring a middle-aged professor and the young mob enforcer who lives across the hall. There are a lot of silly or strange things about it, but it hit enough pleasing buttons that I didn't care. A good example of her usual nice touch with the friends and family (the professor has an ex-wife and a kid, the mob enforcer has a teenaged nephew, all these people are charming and central to the story).
There's another series that was more up and down, but it did make me laugh and keep me going. I cannot remember the title of the first to save my life, but I think the second is called Bulletproof. It kind of takes her 'everyone loves the protagonist' thing to the point of absurdity, but the protagonist is a genuinely charming social butterfly. And trouble magnet, natch. contemporary romances/occasional mysteries. I feel like this series is her writing at its most . . . herness, if you know what I mean.
I decidedly did not like the ones with the werepanthers. The first was trashily entertaining -- Change of Heart? something like that -- but I would warn you off the rest for some really weird persecution/violence fetish and general stupidity. She invents a magical reason for everyone to love the protagonist, and it goes weird/not good in ways she understands and also ways she doesn't.
She also has a lengthy urban fantasy series that I've picked up and put down multiple times. I think it's one of those where each book is a pairing, and I just haven't hit the right one yet, but so far they haven't interested me. I think they're called The Wardens? Warders? something like that.
I'm trying to be better about reviewing these. I tend not to think of them as "books," and classify them mentally as fanfic. Trying to be better about that, because clearly people want to know!
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I liked Acrobat -- divertingly fuzzy romance starring a middle-aged professor and the young mob enforcer who lives across the hall. There are a lot of silly or strange things about it, but it hit enough pleasing buttons that I didn't care. A good example of her usual nice touch with the friends and family (the professor has an ex-wife and a kid, the mob enforcer has a teenaged nephew, all these people are charming and central to the story).
There's another series that was more up and down, but it did make me laugh and keep me going. I cannot remember the title of the first to save my life, but I think the second is called Bulletproof. It kind of takes her 'everyone loves the protagonist' thing to the point of absurdity, but the protagonist is a genuinely charming social butterfly. And trouble magnet, natch. contemporary romances/occasional mysteries. I feel like this series is her writing at its most . . . herness, if you know what I mean.
I decidedly did not like the ones with the werepanthers. The first was trashily entertaining -- Change of Heart? something like that -- but I would warn you off the rest for some really weird persecution/violence fetish and general stupidity. She invents a magical reason for everyone to love the protagonist, and it goes weird/not good in ways she understands and also ways she doesn't.
She also has a lengthy urban fantasy series that I've picked up and put down multiple times. I think it's one of those where each book is a pairing, and I just haven't hit the right one yet, but so far they haven't interested me. I think they're called The Wardens? Warders? something like that.
I'm trying to be better about reviewing these. I tend not to think of them as "books," and classify them mentally as fanfic. Trying to be better about that, because clearly people want to know!