November 25, 2007
· Written by La Lola
· Filed under CONTEMPORARY, Elizabeth Lowell
“The Fire of Spring” by Elizabeth Lowell
This book has long been out of print. But I tracked the book down because I’m a wee bit obsessive that way. Anyone who’s ever read an Elizabeth Lowell book should know that her heroes are as alpha as they come (read: macho jerks on occasion). Add the fact that this book was published in 1986, and be prepared for a travel back in time to when heroines were doormats and heroes liked to step all over them. Hard.
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November 14, 2007
· Written by La Lola
· Filed under CONTEMPORARY, Elizabeth Lowell
“Granite Man” by Elizabeth Lowell
Cash McQueen is your typical Elizabeth Lowell hero (before she ventured onto the treacherous path aka Romantic Suspense aka The Way To Alienate RMB Girls Forever). He’s arrogant, rude and so alpha that his pee is used for rocket fuel. Like any series hero, Cash was perfectly acceptable in the books in which he appears as a secondary character. Put him in his own book however, and all the sense and normality he exhibited previously vanish in a poof of smoke.
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May 28, 2007
· Written by La Lola
· Filed under CONTEMPORARY, Elizabeth Lowell
“Eden Burning” by Elizabeth Lowell
Elizabeth Lowell is a force to be reckoned with, so I highly doubt that my little raniew is likely to make much difference to her popularity. La Lola’s is but one lone cry in the vast wilderness after all, destined to go unheard by a cruel, unfeeling world. (”What do you mean I’ve had too much to drink Sheridan Sakura Carlotta? You give me back that bottle of Jim Beam you hear!”) She is sadly amongst the ranks of those authors who shall not be named (Starts with “M” and rhymes with Becnaught) who have been lured to the dark side aka Romantic Suspense.
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May 10, 2007
· Written by La Lola
· Filed under CONTEMPORARY, Elizabeth Lowell
“To the Ends of the Earth” by Elizabeth Lowell
If someone were to ask me why I like alpha heroes, the answer is simple. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. What this means is, that if the hero is a jerk i.e he is the biggest ass in the world, his eventual reformation becomes all the sweeter. After all, what fun is there in taming a pussy, whey-faced sop? It’s like trying to arm-wrestle a one-handed dwarf with 2 fingers.
(Apologies to all one-handed, two-fingered dwarves out there, it’s nothing personal). Taming a SNAG, who thinks he looks good in pink and owns shares in Mattel is no challenge at all. Put a macho, pig-headed hott hero in front of us, and watch him struggle and rail against being Lassoed by Love, and now that’s entertainment.
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