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By: Yuri

Yuri — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:45:21 +0000

Thank-you for all the recc’s – AAR has really honed my single titles finds but I am always looking to expand my horizons with category romances.

My Top 5 (6) are:

- Linda Howard – Mackenzie’s Mountain (my all-time favorite Howard)
- Fiona Brand – Marrying McCabe (I know everyone disparages this one but it works for me)
- Linda Howard – Mackenzie’s Pleasure
- Suzanne Brockmann - Letters to Kelly (so sad and wonderful)
- Linda Howard – White Lies (best amnesiac story ever!)
- Emma Darcy – The Wedding (dated but I love it)

I notice all of these are older books so my Top 5 from 2008 are:

Johnson Janice Kay The Man Behind the Cop,
Marinelli Carol Hired: the Italian’s convenient mistress
Darcy Lilian The Children’s Doctor and the Single Mum
Monroe Lucy Forbidden: the Billionaire’s virgin princess
O’Keefe Molly A Man Worth Keeping

These books cover subject topics as wide as grief, what parents owe their children, neonatal care, spousal abuse, culture clash in amongst the handsome billionaires and waif-like heroines.

By: Kaye

Kaye — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:21:28 +0000

I had to go pull the storage box from under the bed to see if I had any that weren’t already spoken for.

I have all the MacKenzies (some in dulicate just in case), remember fondly the Jessica Bird (and wish I had kept them) have Marilyn Pappano’s Sothern Knight series (set in New Orleans) and a Blaze trilogy of Donna Kauffman (Her Secret Thrill, Against the Odds & His Private Pleasure) that I especially liked.

But my all time winner is ‘Annie and the Outlaw’ by Sharon Sala. It is a Silloutte Intimate Moment from 1994 and still a comfort read. The plot seems over the top formularic (sp?). She has an inoperable brain tumor and he is a fallen angel on Harley working on redemption. But I get swept up in it (and probably shed a tear or two) every time I read it.

By: annie

annie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:02:10 +0000

I like a lot of category reads. My newest discovery is Kelly Hunter, who writes presents extra, which I like better than the normal Presents. They’re still steamy and glamorous, but there’s a delicious thread of humor woven through it. Hunter’s characters are great and the sassy repartee between her heroes and heroines is fun.

I also like the Romance line, Liz Fielding and Marion Lennox are autobuys for me.

One of the other things I enjoy about categories is the variety of settings you get from all over the world.

By: Fran

Fran — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:27:16 +0000

I started reading categories when I found out many authors I read got there start writing these. I went looking for all of their older books starting with Marilyn Pappano. I hunted down every category book she had written and continued to write after she went mainstream. I still have her Southern Knights series ’94-’98 (my how time flies) and reread them occasionally. Still have Night Heat & New Year’s Knight, Temptations by Lyn Ellis also known as Virginia Ellis. Call Me, Alison Kent’s first book, a Temptation. Driven to Distraction by Judith Duncan. She was a wonderful author. I read everything by Janice Kay Johnson, until recently. Not finding much to like these days. My only recent find, Sarah Mayberry, has some good Blazes.

By: Nathalie

Nathalie — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:19:33 +0000

I like Harlequin books. They are great reading material when I’m too tired to read a more serious book. Since I’m a university student, I read a lot of bog, heavy text books. My brain needs to relax sometimes.