Books by Lori Wilde

C+
The Cowboy Cookie Challenge

Lori Wilde fans definitely know what they’re getting when they crack open another volume of her Twilight, Texas series. The Cowboy Cookie Challenge combines baking, Christmas, and hunky cowboys into a single, compact, easy to chew volume. But the experience sometimes feels overly processed and che ...

D
The Christmas Key

Lori Wilde’s heartwarming and mystical Twilight, Texas series continues with this seasonal offering, The Christmas Key. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Mark – Gunny - Shepherd is living with PTSD thanks to his service in Kandahar, and physical trauma thanks to a final mission that left him with a can ...

C+
Cowboy, It's Cold Outside

Around the holidays, I sometimes just can't resist a Christmas romance. Cowboy, It's Cold Outside appeared on my doorstep and filled a reading void. It's pretty Christmassy as holiday romances go, but not really anything groundbreaking or fabulous as far as contemporary romances go. Paige MacGreg ...

B+
Million Dollar Cowboy

As a native of New York, I’m not very familiar with the ranches found out West. Perhaps that’s why I’ve always loved Westerns - they are an escape to a completely different world. Although Million Dollar Cowboy takes place in modern times, reading it was still a nice departure from the cold we ...

B+
A Wedding for Christmas

A Wedding for Christmas is the latest instalment in Ms. Wilde’s popular Twilight, Texas series. This book tells the tale of Katie Cheek and Ryder Southerland, both natives of the small town who have known each other all their lives. For Katie, there’s been an element of torture to their friendsh ...

B
All Out of Love

It seems like I had more than my fare share of "light summer reads" to review this month, All Out of Love by Lori Wilde being one of them. While it's a delicious ugly duckling story that I great enjoyed reading, it wasn't particularly life-altering. The small town of Cupid, Texas is famous for on ...

C
Love at First Sight

Philosophically, I don't have a problem with love at first sight. I know it's a premise that some romance readers just can't buy into, but I can manage to suspend my disbelief most of the time (even if I might think that usually it's lust at first sight that eventually matures into love). But though ...

C
The Cowboy and the Princess

I don't usually judge a book by its title, but I have to admit that I didn't expect much from The Cowboy and the Princess. It sounded silly and clichéd to me, but I was hoping I might be wrong. Unfortunately, I was right. What I got was a cowboy hero-worship novel with an unrealistic and unoriginal ...

B
The Cowboy Takes a Bride

I rolled my eyes when I read the opening sentence: “The naked cowboy in the gold-plated horse trough presented a conundrum.” Clearly a book that begins with a drunken, naked cowboy wasn’t for me; I feared things would be all downhill from this. Happily, I was wrong. Yes, there is some sillines ...

C+
The First Love Cookie Club

Awkward only begins to describe the events in the prologue of this book. Seeing the future heroine humiliated in an extreme way caused me to start Chapter One with a negative perspective plus some skepticism as well. Sarah Collier is a slightly overweight fifteen-year-old with braces o ...