Discovering Shannon Stacey’s books was one of my reading highlights for 2010. So I was extremely excited to be able to review her third book about the Kowalski family. Yours to Keep has Ms. Stacey’s trademark humor and great dialogue but with the fairly predictable story arc, the book lost steam for me in the…
Although I’ve lived in large cities most of my life, I enjoy romances set in small towns and have a particular fondness for romances set in small Texas towns. Even a town filled with over-the-top characters can work for me if the hero and heroine are engaging and have a compelling romance. Sadly, this book…
I first discovered Mariah Stewart’s books in the late nineties. I was captivated by the combination of mystery and romance, but when she started writing books featuring serial killers I reluctantly said goodbye. Recently she has gone back to the kinder, gentler stories that initially won me over. Almost Home is the third book in…
I recently downloaded this 2005 release to my Kindle. Why? My original paperback is falling apart from countless readings. Yes, this book is a DIK for me and a buried treasure since I’ve seen virtually no buzz about it online. Sam Frazier and his four-year old son are heading to town when a camper swerves…
I liked this story of the gradual development of a relationship between two stubborn, rather prickly people. However, I should caution this relationship isn’t between a man and a woman, but between a long separated grandmother and granddaughter. While there is a tentative romance, it takes second place to the family story. Meredith Briscoe is…
Reading this book was a lot like spending an afternoon with my very sweet, very voluble cousin who, every time I see her, launches into protracted, tedious stories about people I’ve never met and, based on her anecdotes, have no interest in meeting. While she chatters on, I think – and I do always feel…
Narrated by Isabel Keating This had a bit of a shaky start for me, but the narrator did a good job of bringing the story and characters to life, so I kept listening. In the end, it was a fun audiobook featuring a less than perfect heroine and some quirky secondary characters. While the romance…
Cashing in on Jane Austen’s recent popularity seems to be the name of the game in publishing. If Austen readers believe Fanny Price of Austen’s Mansfield Park is a socially shy mental case, poster child for the same sort of women, and want to read about an equally wussy heroine, this book will be a…
Blended families are tough, especially in romance. When the kids are perfect, the books are too sweet. When they are impossible, you wonder why the two primaries are bothering anyway. But what if they are adults? Is the family still blended if the “kids” being spoken of are all grown up? In the case of…
Proponents of city living and small families need only look to this book for ammunition to support their viewpoint. If I was a member of the meddlesome O’Brien family and lived in Eagle Point, I would have to move far far away. This book is book six in the Chesapeake Shores series. Readers should have…
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