“O brave new world with such people in’t!” Shakespeare’s Miranda may have said it first, but it’s a quote that kept running through my mind while I read The Island, because Keely Cochrane is a modern day Miranda. Raised on an isolated island full of odd superstitions, Keely has had almost no contact with the…
Want to come away from a book all smiley-faced and misty-eyed? Want a story to leave you with a feel-good tingle and a sad-sweet grin? If you do, then Curtiss Ann Matlock’s Lost Highways is just what you’re lookin’ fer. Oklahoma gal Rainey Valentine is a barrel-racer, as was her mama. Coweta Valentine died about…
Rainey Valentine is 35 years old. She’s been married and divorced two times and now she’s facing her life alone.. Her mother has just died and while Rainey still has family in her father, brother and sister, she now realies that a vital part of her life is missing. Rainey’s mother was a religious woman…
The Cowboy’s Bride is Canadian author Carolyne Aarsen’s fourth book under the Love Inspired label. Here is an engaging story of two young Canadians who find “divine” love on earth as they each face seemingly insurmountable barriers in their struggles to attain their own dreams. An irresistibly charming hero makes for enjoyable reading, despite a…
I just finished a marvelous Linda Howard book featuring a secret agent in deep cover and in deep trouble and the brave and resourceful woman who saves his life and falls in love with him. No, it wasn’t her latest hardcover All The Queen’s Men, I’m talking about Diamond Bay, one of Howard’s earlier and…
“Oh, man,” I thought, when I read the cover of Kathleen Eagle’s new book, “not another secret-baby story!” But saying Eagle has written a secret-baby book is like saying Margaret Mitchell wrote about the Civil War. What the Heart Knows is a finely crafted and moving tale of love, loss, and a chain of events…
The best thing I can say about Love Lessons is that it isn’t boring. It’s jam-packed with trite dialogue, cliché characters, unrealistic settings and purple prose, but it retains a sort of campy charm that kept me reading until the last page – if only to see what situation the too-stupid-to-live heroine and her testosterone-driven…
What started out as an average read floated away to darker waters because of an overabundance of editing problems, transparent plot twists, and tea – yes, tea. Lacey Summers has been asked by her beloved Uncle Henry to do some art research, specifically to delve into the origins of an obscure painting called The Lone…
What is a story without a good plot and good characters? Sometimes a terrific plot can make up for less than terrific characters, and vice versa. When elements of a plot make me uncomfortable and angry and characters creep me out, I know I’m in for an unpleasant read. Such was the case with Mary…
Pillow Talk is an enjoyable enough contemporary romance featuring one of the nicest heroines I have encountered in a long time. However, some important issues are left unresolved at the end of the book. Author North, in this reviewer’s humble opinion, did not take advantage of the New Orleans setting. And, because the hero and…
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