You know the feeling—you've been waiting forever for Kristan Higgins's new book. You buy it on the release date, read it immediately, and then find it impossible to move on to another book because her style of writing and her characters have hold on you. You want more of the same, but you have already re-read her backlist so many times that you can almost repeat the dialogue from memory. You’re afraid you are turning into your child, with her nightly request of Stellaluna. Where do you turn next?
That all depends on what you like about her books. Ms. Higgins utilizes first person narrative most of the time, usually from the heroine’s point of view. She is also not afraid to push the envelope a little. Who can forget Catch of the Day's Maggie Beaumont, and her unrequited love for the town’s priest?
Falling in love with a Catholic priest was not my smartest move.
Obviously, I’m well aware of the whole vow-of-chastity, married-to-the-church thing. I realize that yearning for a priest doesn’t exactly further the cause of meeting my future husband. And in case I might have overlooked those little facts, I have an entire town pointing them out to me.
Or the sharklike divorce attorney, Harper James from My One and Only, whose biased view of love and her profession prompted her priest to assign her a daily task:
Father Bruce, viewing my soul as a personal campaign, had challenged me to, in his words, “offset the evil of your profession” by doing at least one random act of kindness each day.
Light historical romance is a delicious escape from everyday life, one that offers even more of a holiday from reality than contemporary or dark historical. Here's a rundown of what light historicals are, and what makes them so much fun:
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Urban fantasy readers get treated to a wide variety of supernatural beings in an array of predicaments, the stakes of which may range from the safety of a particular city or area to the destruction of the world. It seems as though there are as many ways to save the world as there are ways to destroy it, and urban fantasy characters each employ an approach that works best for them. In addition to differing methods used to get the job done, the authors’ use of tone in depicting their characters’ thoughts and actions also vary, particularly in regards to humor.
Paranormal Romance isn’t always just about the sexy times with our favorite creatures that go bump in the night. Some of our favorite PNR novels not only make us feel the need for a cold shower, they also make us dirty giggle. Every so often we need to mix it up to keep it all fresh, to get away from the heavy into something a little on the lighter side of the genre. Not everything has to be about sex, people—okay, I lied just there. I wouldn’t skimp on the sexy times, but add in laughter and you have the perfect combination.
A hero who brandishes his well-developed sense of humor makes me swoon more often than the one with bulging biceps. Any hero worth a swoon, in fact, knows that humor is disarming.
