Wyoming Wildflower is Pam Crooks’s debut novel. She shows promise, and this is a good first effort. But it is ultimately a rather uneven read. Ten years after leaving home to become educated as a lady in Boston, Sonnie Mancuso returns to her father’s ranch. He has had a heart attack, and she hopes both…
The Bad Luck Wedding Night is the continuation of Geralyn Dawson’s Bad Luck Wedding series. The heroine of this most recent installment is the business partner of the heroines from the previous two titles in the series (The Bad Luck Wedding Dress and The Bad Luck Wedding Cake) and the characters from the preceding books…
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 took me awhile to drum up some interest in this book. Just as I was ready to dismiss this book altogether, it got interesting. Unfortunately, it didn’t stay that way. The basic plot of The Lawman’s Surrender is interesting enough, but the main characters are a little shallow. Susannah Calhoun met U.S. Marshal Jedidiah…
This book had definite peaks and valleys, the low points starting on page one, the high point in the middle, and a serious dip again near the end. It also suffered from a rather mean heroine. Had Mattie St. Clair been a judge in this story, I imagine her nickname would have been something like…
Nathan Stone is a Tennessee gentleman whose world was ravaged by the Civil War. Embittered by violence, he turned to outlawry and narrowly escaped being hanged before he attempted to turn his life around. Now he’s masquerading as a preacher with a wagon train full of good Christians, headed for Oregon and hoping for a…
While I’ve not read Jodi Thomas before, I have read reviews of her other books, including those in the related McClain series. All the reviews have been good (some have been great), giving me a pleasant sense of anticipation for Twilight in Texas. So it’s with no small amount of confusion that as I write…
Fortune’s Treasure is a western with some fun twists, and though its lead characters were quite likable, the plot does not do them justice. Too many coincidences require too much suspension of disbelief, and the strong characterizations cannot overcome other flaws in the story’s plot, including an ending that seemed manufactured. Nora-Leigh Dillon is a…
I opened Never Marry a Cowboy because I was coming off a very difficult and disappointing read, and I wanted an author that I could really count on to deliver. Lorraine Heath is just such an author, and while this isn’t as good as Always to Remember (the only book that has ever made me…
As a reviewer my job description is pretty simple: finish a book and then write about it. It goes without saying that I can’t do the second without doing the first. However, in this case I came to realize that in order to write the review I simply could not continue to read this book,…
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