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My experience with Inspirationals is somewhat limited. I’d never read anything by Jane Orcutt before, so I did not know what to expect. But The Living Stone did not disappoint. This is a very touching story of loss and pain, death and resurrection. Leah Travers is a contented wife and mother to a two-year-old son….
Usually when it comes to time travel books, I’m not too picky. My father, who is an omnivorous reader, can’t read time travel at all since the whole concept offends his sense of logic. I accept the premise and don’t worry how the characters travel in time, but once they do, if they act like…
Now this is more like it! Not only do we get a sweet love story with very likable lead characters, but we also see some action take place on stage instead of off, as has been the rule with this series. In the 11th of the A Year of Living Dangerously mini-series, we meet Simon…
Dinah McCall also writes under the name Sharon Sala. I’ve enjoyed many of her books under both names, so I was looking forward to this one. The set up for the plot of this book was intriguing, but I could never warm up to the relationship between the hero and heroine, and certain plot elements…
A little over a hundred years ago, there was a tremendous interest in all things Egyptian. Archaeology had advanced to such a degree that important finds were being discovered on a regular basis. Who wouldn’t find fascinating a culture that had flourished on the desert five thousand years earlier which had left behind artifacts crafted…
Jude Deveraux’s Twin of Ice and Twin of Fire, originally published separately in 1985, have now been reissued in one volume. The two novels have parallel, simultaneous plots and work best read together. Twin of Ice describes Houston Chandler’s relationship to her husband Kane Taggert; Twin of Fire tells some of the same events from…
Much Obliged by Jessica Benson is an occasionally amusing story of an arranged match that has been postponed indefinitely. There is much attempt at humor here, but not all of it succeeds. John Fitzwilliam, Earl of Claremont (referred to as Fitzwilliam in the story), has been informally affianced since the cradle, but he has little…
Last year I reviewed A Memory of Love by Bertrice Small. While I didn’t recommend it, I was sufficiently intrigued by it that I volunteered to review this one as well. I’m now sorry I did that – I was deeply disappointed by this book. The innocent of the title is Eleanore “Elf” de Montfort,…
“Never love an Englishman” is the credo by which Evleen O’Fallon has been raised. Her mother’s second husband was an Englishman who ran through her mother’s fortune and then died, leaving the family destitute. Forced to sell everything and move to a barren cottage in County Clare, the family has learned to make due, but…
For Molly is a book that I picked up and put down a few times before finally settling down with it. Vicki Allen has a style that gently pulls you in but doesn’t grab you by the throat. It’s a pleasant book to read while you spend an afternoon catching some rays in the back…
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