When this book started out, I liked it so much I planned to grant it Desert Isle Keeper status. It had everything I like: a moderately tortured hero and a heroine who appears to have some intelligence; an interesting and unique storyline; and good secondary characters. That makes it all the more disheartening that the…
Upon returning from her husband’s funeral, Dena Clayter discovers a wounded outlaw in her kitchen. So begins Tanya Hanson’s promising, yet inconsistent debut novel. Dena is an intelligent, well-educated woman who was raised in privilege and, due to a series of misfortunes, was forced to marry Gottleib Clayter, a much older farmer. She is dutiful…
Extreme Measures tried my patience for a goodly amount of time. While I don’t object to mental lusting, I do object to it when combined with animosity. I can’t stand the I-hate-you-but-you-are-hot-so-lets-have-wild-monkey-sex scenario and that’s just how this book started out. But just when I was reaching the teeth grinding stage, the characters settled down,…
Chase the Wind is a long book covering two generations and 22 years. I read it avidly since I love a good long historical saga. After I finished, I wished it could have been the length of Diane Gabaldon’s Outlander or Paullina Simons’ The Bronze Horseman. The story is filled with incidents and characters, many…
At the end of this book, I was almost in tears. Not because it was particularly touching, but because I was so happy it was finally over. That’s hardly a promising way to start a review, I know, but, unfortunately, it’s an honest one. Sinclair Readford arrives in Ghost Horse Gulch, in Montana Territory, unannounced…
Although Patricia Gaffney has since moved on to women’s fiction, her 1997 western has just been reissued in trade size. Outlaw in Paradise is the first I’ve read by her, and while I enjoyed it, it left me feeling somewhat ambiguous. Cadence “Cady” McGill owns a saloon in Paradise, Oregon, and does fairly well for…
I’d heard positive things about this author, so when I received A Chance at Love to review, I was looking forward to reading it. Many aspects of the book impressed me, while others left me a little confused. There were several qualities here that I liked a lot, among them a very strong heroine. In…
Let me give you a little scenario. You’re taking a bath, and when you’re done you stand up and reach for a towel, only to find it and your robe are being held by a grubby, gaunt, bearded, and shackled man. This man says, “Very nice” and lets his gaze rake up and down your…
I know it’s a bad sign when I start looking for reasons to put a book down – and then have to convince myself that yes, I really do need to pick it back up. That was pretty much the case with Explaining Herself, although it did become a little more compelling toward the end….
Why – in the country where the western was born, where masterpiece western movies like Stagecoach, Red River, and The Searchers can be found on classic movie channels, where rodeo is a popular sport, and the cowboy is an icon – are good western romance novels so hard to find? Take Sinfully Delicious for example….
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