I am really a tolerant reader. I can forgive a multitude of sins if I have a fairly decent story and some characters with character. I thought Night After Night would be interesting. It has a nice setting – California in 1868, where the heroine is a teacher, the hero is a loner, and they…
I was quite intrigued by the setting of Kathryn Fox’s The Seduction. The majority of the novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1898. The story’s heroine, Samantha Wilder, wants to escape the life of a conventional San Francisco society wife and become a reporter for one of her uncle’s newspapers. Sam decides that…
Let me cut right to the chase. This book is . . . not good. In fact, it’s rather bad. So bad, there were times I laughed out loud (when I wasn’t rolling my eyes). Honestly, I tried to find redeeming qualities in the characters, but they were so dumb, well, no help there. The…
I hardly know what to say. In reading Dance On The Wind I was bewildered throughout by the amateurish nature of the writing, the one-dimensional characters, and the literally hundreds of clichés that passed for dialogue. It was almost as though somebody had taken all the overused phrases from every romance ever written, put them…
Reunion by Kathryn Fox is an unusual and powerful historical romance. Unfortunately, the question on the cover – Would their future be filled with love..or heartbreak? – isn’t really satisfactorily answered. The question that still bothered me at the end of this book was, “Is love going to be enough to save this marriage?” Adam…
Walker’s Widow is supposed to be a light Western romp, but it just didn’t work for me. I had issues with all three of the main characters’ actions and motivations, and the lack of any grounding for the story was a continuing distraction. Walker is Clay Walker, a Texas Ranger lured to Purgatory, Texas, by…
I’ll admit that I’m a sucker for heroines who are tough and resilient, but also convinced that they’re unattractive. You know the ones; they’re called too gawky, tall, heavy, short, etc. by everyone in their families, so they’re certain those opinions are right. Perhaps it’s the small confidence issues most women, me included, feel, that…
Lori Handeland’s latest release, Rico, features cardboard characters in a plot that flip-flops between believable and contrived without warning. Then there’s the ending, which should come complete with a warning for diabetics. But not to worry – unless you have masochistic tendencies, you probably won’t make it that far. Betty Lillian is a card dealer,…
Sarah Hornsby is more than happy with her life as a widow. Her contentment is not surprising since she’s finally free of an unhappy marriage and has come into her own as the proprietor of a store selling crafts made by the women of Clear Creek, Texas. The last thing she wants is to ever…
I always try to have high hopes for each new book I pick up, even one with a cover as awful as this one has: a clinch, he’s stripped to the waist, her dress is literally falling off, his buns are crooked, she appears to be giving a chiropractic adjustment to his painfully twisted neck,…
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