Piper Dove wants to become the best private detective in Chicago. First, though, she desperately needs to make enough to keep her agency afloat. Her over-protective dad, who didn’t think it was appropriate for Piper to follow in his footsteps, left the agency to her greedy step-mum and Piper has spent every penny she had to buy it back, so she can run it herself. She’s giving everything on her first job, trailing former quarterback for the Chicago Stars football team, now nightclub owner, Cooper […]
This is the review where I use the A word a lot. And d-bag. I use that a lot, too.
This. Freaking. Book. So I discovered Susan Elizabeth Phillips quite by accident, and Glitter Baby is now the go to reference between Boss and me whenever he feels the need to make fun of what I’m reading, and even though I point out again and again that my trashy romance novels are high literature compared to some of his trashy celebrity biographies, he still continues to make fun of me and I let him because he pays me. And sometimes he buys me diet Coke. […]
Pretty sure Abigail Bartlet wouldn’t have put up with Mat with one T
I downloaded First Lady from the library and it wasn’t quite what I expected, but I suppose it was okay. Very middle-of-the-road, fairly predictable, but relatively serviceable. Cornelia “Nealy” Case is the defacto First Lady to the first bachelor president the United States has had in years. After taking a month to grieve after her husband – the president – was killed (and I can’t remember if he was assassinated or just died of…something), Nealy’s father (the party chairman) volunteered her to stay on as […]
But I Don’t Like Jane Eyre!
Susan Elizabeth Phillips is one of my longtime favorite authors. I don’t love all her books or everything about her books, but I always know I will at least have a few hours of enjoyment. Heroes Are My Weakness is familiar ground for SEP – A down on her luck woman who disguises her fear with sass, a man who disguises his protective instincts with brooding or asshole behavior. As with Mary Balogh, Susan Elizabeth Philipps brings together wounded people who heal themselves as well […]
Persevere beyond the first third of the book, it gets better
In this clearly Gothic novel-inspired contemporary romance, unemployed and down on her luck Annie Hewitt has to spend the next sixty days in a small cottage on a remote island on the coast of Maine, because of complicated arrangement in her recently deceased mother’s will. Her closest neighbour just so happens to be Theo Harp, famous horror writer and her stepbrother for a time when they were teens. As a teenager, Annie had a big crush on Theo, but he was unpredictable and at turns […]
I wouldn’t mind taking my breathing room in Tuscany…
Years ago, I read a book by Susan Elizabeth Phillips called Glitter Baby. It was chick lit, but it wasn’t half bad. Boss, who purports to be a book snob but secretly devours celebrity biographies and the much jucier autobiographies, made fun of it, and now Glitter Baby is office shorthand for trashy romance novels. So when I was looking for something light (and free on the library’s website), I found Breathing Room, and figured that I couldn’t go wrong with another Phillips. Dr. Isabel […]