This is probably the most disappointing book I have read in quite some time, mostly because of what it could have been, but for some reason, wasn’t. Topaz, a multicultural romance, features a wonderful, dynamic and sexy hero, a feisty, determined, independent heroine, and great chemistry. When I first started reading it, for about the…
Untamed has some wonderful characters and a secondary romance that is so sweet and tender that I teared up and cried as I read it. Untamed also has a plot that can’t quite make up its mind what to be: A falling down funny farce A tale of the horrors faced by the Cheyenne on…
Topaz links Katherine Love and Dix Wildhorse. Katherine wears the gemstone – her mother’s legacy – around her neck. Dix wears his grandfather’s legacies in one ear and on his badge as a U.S. Marshal. They meet when he rescues her from the clutches of Rupert Samuels, swindler, thief, and all-round bad guy masquerading as…
Ever have a date where it seems like everything should click, but somehow it just doesn’t? The person is nice, makes good conversation, makes all the right moves, but for some reason the chemistry just doesn’t work. Cold Night, Warm Stranger was that way for me. Blessed with a title that seems more appropriate for…
Chloe Sommers is in a bind. She needs to sell her cattle at the railhead before the taxes on her ranch are due or she will end up forfeiting her land to local baddie Calvin Talbot. The first problem is that she has no hired gun to protect her drovers on the cattle drive and…
Wanting You is an “Anastasia” type story. A young woman, who survived life as an Indian captive, arrives at The Regent cattle ranch, claiming to be the long lost granddaughter of matriarch LaDextra Regent. If it turns out that “Anna” is really LaDextra’s granddaughter, then she is the heiress to the ranch, possibly displacing LaDextra’s…
It’s harder to write a review for a bad book than it is for a good one. It’s also more difficult to assign a bad book a letter grade: where does the reviewer draw the line between a D and an F? Does the book hit the wall, or just fall to the floor with…
Ever have one of those reading experiences that left you feeling frustrated? All the ingredients for a great story were there, but for some reason the book just didn’t hit the mark for you? That’s what I went through reading The Runaway Bride, by Sandra Chastain. It’s an adequate book, but I came away from…
Love seems to me to be a fairly magical thing, especially in romance novels. What could be more magical than the unlikely coupling of the gentlemanly Geoffrey and the shrewish Elene in Deborah Simmons The De Burgh Bride or Reggie’s rake and Alys’s reformer in Mary Jo Putney’s The Rake? Sometimes of course, magic makes…
How refreshing to have a heroine who is a “fallen woman!” Combine that with a hero who trembles for her, throw in a few major obstacles for them to overcome, and the result is a emotionally satisfying and enjoyable romance. Antoinette Sutton is pregnant, in serious trouble, and on the run. She has killed a…
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