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The inside flap of The Wind from the Hills tells us that it continues the story of “love, greed and betrayal” that began with The Island Wife (the author’s previous book). Well, I got the greed and betrayal part, but love? This book is a kind of anti-romance. In fact, as far as I could…
Then and Now is a perfectly pleasant but perfectly bland time-travel romance. There is nothing at all offensive about it, but there is nothing to make the reader sit up and take notice either. I kept waiting for the book to catch fire, but it never did. At the end of it I felt like…
The many readers who loved Glenna McReynolds’ first book, The Chalice and the Blade, may not be happy with my review of its sequel, Dream Stone. But the truth is that, over half the time, I had no idea what was going on. At about page 100 I got so frustrated that I went and…
Jennifer Keirans in her dual review of Dream Stone is right, anyone attempting to read this book without having read The Chalice and the Blade will be totally lost. Even though I had read the previous book, it took me a little time to reacquaint myself with the characters. However, after that happened, I was…
Mysteries provide a pleasant change of pace for me, and this one was refreshing in setting, plot and characterizations. The book has enough medieval flavor to demonstrate the author’s research, but does not overwhelm the story. Hugh Corbaille was orphaned at the age of seven and taken in by the Sheriff of Lincoln, Ralf Corbaille,…
One of the reasons I seldom read American westerns is because the characters and situations are so consistent. The cowboys, ranchers, spinsters and schoolmarms, all seem to have been born and raised on the prairie or on the plains. I wonder where the immigrants are. Willa Cather or Laura Ingalls Wilder often wrote about the…
Separate Lives is billed as a romance but it is definitely not. It could be better categorized as soap opera – the dull, predictable, bland kind of soap opera of the past. While the distinct British flavor of writing is at first reminiscent of Mary Stewart or Daphne Du Maurier, this story rapidly proves itself…
The women of Kilbooly have had enough! They live in a village where the men will not marry them, and something has to be done about it. The women decide that a boycott is in order. If they refuse to provide aid and comfort to the men, those men will come around and decide that…
St. John Thornton, better known as Sinjun, is being forced to marry against his will. He’s fourteen, and his bride is a mere child of seven, and she’s just as happy to be marrying him – as she demonstrates with a couple of kicks to his shins. Fortunately for Sinjun, after the ceremony he can…
Rachel Lee has made Conard County, Wyoming her own little corner of the world. The cast of characters who live there – Nate Tate the sheriff, Maude at the diner, Reverend Fromberg at the Community Church, have become old and dear friends and I eagerly await each book so I can see them again. I…
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