Bride on the Run is a mail-order bride story with a potboiler plot. So many disasters befall its characters that they spend their time reeling from one crisis to another, with hardly any time to breathe. While the prose is interesting, the relentless pace makes for an exhausting read. Anna DeCarlo is a saloon singer…
This was the first romance starring a Mountie that I’ve read, and I liked it enough to wish there was much more of it. The historical setting is well-depicted, and the characterizations range from good to exceptionally fine. A fairly standard gentleman-meets-wild-child setup is enlivened by unusual details and a fresh outlook. The story is…
I was hoping to read and review A Candle In The Window before Christmas-time because the “holiday spirit” literally permeates the book. Unfortunately, putting the book down after the riveting and emotional first few chapters was far too easy, and it took me over three weeks to finish this sometimes heart-tugging but all too often…
Sometimes it’s hard to put your finger on what it is about a book that didn’t grab you, but I will try to do so in this case because it’s my job as a reviewer to do so. Although there were a few areas that engaged my interest, there were major flaws as well, which…
I love to find buried treasures. When I picked up this book with its silly title and cheesy, anacronistic cover (I assume those were supposed to be candles on that Christmas tree but they sure looked like electric lights to me), I didn’t have my hopes up for a good book. To my complete surprise,…
I don’t feel the holiday spirit until the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, so reading a holiday story in October was a little odd. Fortunately, when I read it I was in Vermont, where it happened to snow. I expected a sweet heartwarming tale. As a bonus, it’s also well written and surprisingly sexy. Twenty-year-old Robin…
Touched by Gold is one of those books that has some interesting ideas and elements but fails to come together as a harmonious whole. I picked it up because the heroine is an archaeologist, and I thought it might be something like one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies, The Mummy with Brendan Fraser. I…
Some books may look ordinary, but hold special surprises. If you love Westerns, you really ought to do yourself a favor and check out The Colonel’s Widow. Amanda Green, a nurse for the Union, was widowed in the Civil War, and soon after her husband’s death she is confronted by angry townspeople. Amanda’s late husband,…
Jordan’s Heart tells the story of a Boston scholar who loves a Colorado rancher. The most unexpected thing about it is the fact that Jordan is the name of the heroine, not the hero. Jordan Alcott has striven her entire life to win her archaeologist father’s approval, by following in his footsteps, attaining a college…
I loved the central conflict in this book: the hero and heroine, who once loved each other deeply, have now come to hate each other just as deeply, and not because of any big misunderstandings. She was a Southern Belle and he was a Union spy. The met, fell in love, and got married in…
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