Love Comes Softly is an important book. If Kathleen Woodiwiss’ The Flame and the Flower changed the romance fiction market forever in 1972, in 1979 Love Comes Softly did something of the same thing for the Christian romance market which had been stagnating since the death of Grace Livingston Hill in 1947. A simple, sweet…
Nowadays, authors who want to write historical romances with American Indian heroes must find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Judging from our reviews, historical-wallpaper romances with imposing braves grunting pidgin English and carrying off squawking female captives seem to be out of favor, and I’m all for that. But War Cloud’s Passion…
The entire length of this book I just wanted to shake some sense into the heroine, Lydia Seaton. She’s not exactly too stupid to live, but she keeps creating mountains out of molehills so she doesn’t have to tell the hero the real reason she doesn’t want to commit to their relationship. Lydia and her…
MacKenzy Cord has been in love with Savannah Carrington as long as he can remember. Everything he does is in preparation for their life together. He’s saved everything he’s earned as bounty hunter to buy her a nice big house and he’s arranged to take over the local sheriff’s job so he’s respectable. Only one…
Phantom Waltz is my contender for the most romantic romance I’ve read this year. After flirting from behind the counter of her father’s store, Bethany Coulter expects Ryan Kendrick to turn tail and flee the moment he realizes that she is in a wheelchair. Bethany, a former champion barrel racer, was injured in a rodeo…
Earthy. If I were to quantify Fever in just one word, it would be earthy. I finished reading this book days ago and have been considering how to approach the review ever since. Parts of are really good; parts are not. Some characters are well drawn; others are stereotypes. The plot works, mostly, but also…
Against the Odds is well-written and even interesting, but ultimately forgettable. In the aftermath of the Civil War, a Southern lady and a Yankee POW find love on board a doomed steamboat. The historical flavor is nice, but the crisis-to-crisis pace is a little monotonous. Gabe Davis is one of a thousand prisoners of war…
It felt like it had been a while since I read an American Historical Romance, so after many lords, ladies and contemporary characters, I’m very glad I asked to review More Than You Wished, the second book in the Hamilton series. I enjoyed it very much, and I hope you’ll find it as satisfying a…
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…
It looks like I’m going to be in the minority when it comes to this installment of Susan Wiggs’ Chicago Fire trilogy. While the heroine is an interesting and different character, I had a hard time connecting with her or the love story. On the night of the terrible Chicago Fire, suffragist Lucy Hathaway has…
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