Kirkus Reviews: Romance, Written by a Male

OMG, who knew a guy could write such a great romance! Oh, yes, there is Nicholas Sparks, but he's really not romance no matter what he says. After all, fall in love with a character and he'll kill them off with little notice and very little remorse. No, I'm not bitter: I just don't do weepy books. I have enough drama and loss in my life already without adding it to my reading. Leigh Greenwood has also been around for years, but his romances are mostly about cowboys and, well, they're just not my favorite romances. Cowboys, that is. I prefer the "secret agent" type books. Perhaps it's because I cut my teeth on Candlelight Romances: Yes, that really ages me, but some of my favorite reading was between the covers of a Candlelight Ecstasy I found in a used book store. Some of those authors stuck with me for years and introduced me to a variety of couples I fell in love with. My favorites were always the ones where the hero was part of some mysterious "agency." Also, having been in Germany during the Cold War and living on a military base, I don't think too fondly of military heroes. I guess they feel just too familiar in real life, in the vein of my feelings about Amish heroes, which we'll save for another day.

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