On rereading Barbara Hambly’s Bride of the Rat God for the purpose of writing this review, I was surprised once more by what a truly superb novel it is. On rereading, I found new details to savor, ones that I had overlooked before because I had been too caught up in the excitement of the…
If you’re a fan of Michael Mann’s film of The Last of the Mohicans (yes, the one with the delightful Daniel Day Lewis in it), then Rising Wind may be just the book for you. It’s the story of class-divided lovers who bond under difficult circumstances and find each other, survival, and love. The hero…
I admire any author these days who writes an American Historical. They are few and far between. Needless to say I tucked right into Heart’s Delight with much enthusiasm and wasn’t too disappointed. My only regret is that I could have had something very special in my hands if not for the lack of pages….
From the simplistic plot to its continued abuse of the English language, Red Hawk’s Woman just gets it wrong, wrong, wrong. While Red Hawk’s quest starts off in an interesting enough fashion, the hodgepodge of Native American mythology and overwrought New Age-y spiritualism quickly became too saccharine for this reader to handle. Red Hawk was…
I generally find myself rolling my eyes when I read a girl-in-pants historical novel. They seem to be packed with clichés and full of overdrawn characters. So when I flipped through Wild Sweet Love and noticed how often the heroine gallivanted about in a pair of leather pants, I worried. My fears were unfounded, as…
Somehow I suspect that the hero in High Plains Bride did not expect to find the woman who betrayed him fourteen years earlier showing up on his doorstep and demanding favors of him at gunpoint. Still, that is just how the book opens and the broken relationship that is healed and rekindled kept me reading…
Every so often a book holds a reader in thrall to the point that they can’t even think of putting it down. Then there are those books you wish you’d never read because even though you’re trying your hardest to slog through, all you can think of is that you’ll be three hours older by…
Before starting I should come clean and say that I have an enormous affection for Geralyn Dawson’s books. The Bad Luck Wedding Cake was one of the first romance novels I read and I’ve enjoyed checking up on the McBride family featured in so many of her books ever since. That being said, while I…
Could you tell from the title that Bowie Stone is a bigamist? Well, he is, to put it bluntly, but don’t let that put you off. While I’m not much for men with more than one wife, after reading The Wives of Bowie Stone I will be happy to become Bowie’s third wife and not…
I picked up The Southern Devil with great optimism. It has many things that usually draw me to a book: a Western setting, steamy love scenes, a female who isn’t delicate, adventure, and a childhood connection between the hero and heroine. Sadly, each of the things I looked forward to are seriously flawed. The extremely…
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