Books by LaVyrle Spencer
I've been on a LaVyrle Spencer reading kick recently. I was in the mood for something quiet, emotional and deeply immersive, and Spencer’s books nearly always deliver in that regard. Her last published novel, Then Came Heaven, was an interesting read in many ways, but didn’t have the romantic de ...
LaVyrle Spencer’s The Gamble begins with one of the most interesting enemies-to-lovers premises I’ve ever seen. In the dusty little town of Proffitt, Kansas, Agatha Downing, a struggling milliner, has long endured the noise and drunkenness in the saloon next door. But when a painting of a naked ...
In LaVyrle Spencer’s The Endearment, newly-orphaned Anna Reardon arrives in Minnesota to marry a farmer called Karl Lindstrom. She saw his advertisement for a wife, and they’ve been corresponding since then. But Karl is in for a number of nasty surprises, and as a reader, I was cringing on his b ...
An AAR Top 100 Romance
originally published on March 26, 1998
So often heroes and heroines of romances are larger-than-life characters. Lords, ladies, knights, cowboys, and swashbuckling types in general. There's nothing wrong with that, we all like a little wish fulfillment and fantasy in our r ...
LaVyrle Spencer’s Family Blessings is an older woman/younger man romance, which is the reason I picked it up. There aren’t many romance heroines in their 40s, and I’d already read Ms. Spencer’s other May-December pairing, Years, so I looked forward to this story. Although it has its flaws, i ...
This is my first LaVyrle Spencer book and I have a feeling that I started out with the wrong one. This was a difficult book to grade because, while it's not a bad book, it fails completely as a romance. The Fulfillment is really the story of three people, the heroine, her husband and his brother. It ...
Sweet Memories/One Tough Texan is part of a 50th anniversary series by Harlequin showcasing reprints of older books with new books by current authors. In this case, a 1984 Superromance by LaVyrle Spencer, Sweet Memories, is matched with One Tough Texan, a new Superromance by Jan Freed. Maybe it's my ...
Hummingbird was LaVyrle Spencer's second novel, first published in 1982. It's a western historical romance featuring a bad boy hero and a prim spinster who bicker and fight and fight and bicker and finally become friends and lovers.
Abigail MacKenzie is the town spinster. She is 33 and has sp ...
I love a story with a military flavour, and while this book didn't indicate that there was any military connection on the back blurb, the minute I started reading this book, I was hooked from page 1. This was one of the first LaVyrle Spencer books I read, and rereading it for about the fifteenth tim ...
If you want a fast paced novel that keeps you on the edge of your seat, don't bother with this one. But if you enjoy a leisurely book that captures the life of a bygone time, you will probably enjoy Then Came Heaven. This is LaVyrle Spencer's last novel and I am going to miss her. She is responsible ...