Only With You is not really a story about two people who fall in love. Rather, it’s a story about a heroine who thinks she’s in love with her best friend’s fiance‚ until the second to last chapter, and a hero who finally tells the heroine he loves her on the last line of the…
Cherish is beautifully written and has wonderfully drawn characters, but it was so grim and gritty that it reminded me why western romances usually fall into the category of books I normally read only if they’re light and humorous. Race Spencer comes across a slaughter in an arroyo while he’s out on a cattle drive….
The only thing that kept this book from getting an F was Austin Brand. Although the author did not intend him to be the hero, to me he was. As for the heroine, Suzette – no sir, I didn’t like her, not one little bit! Wayward Lady begins when Suzette Foxworth is having her sixteenth…
Untamed Heart has an intriguing premise. Gabby Wade and Tyler Ashburn are running against each other for the position of mayor in a small Wyoming town in 1887. Who would you think would be the obvious winner? Maureen McKade turns convention on its ear – Gabby runs the only gaming hall/saloon in the town and…
I read westerns to balance out the other historicals I read, which are generally set in the “Old World.” Silver Hearts didn’t do much to cleanse my palate. While it is a pleasant enough read, it was like eating air sorbet – there was no real substance to it. Noelle Bellencourt is on her way…
A Case for Romance has a cute premise. The heroine is a Sherlock Holmes devotee from Boston who comes to Denver to solve her father’s murder. It’s an interesting, original idea. Unfortunately, the heroine is also incredibly stupid, and the historical research is shoddy at best. Although Emily Potter owns a successful millinery shop in…
Only His was my first introduction to Elizabeth Lowell a number of years ago and today she is one of my very favorite writers. This book is not only historical romance at its very best, but romance at its very best. Only His is the first in the Only series, a quartet of western historicals…
One Lonely Night just missed being a Desert Island Keeper for me. Both the hero and heroine went through a little too much angst for me, but this is a good read by a talented author, and I enthusiastically recommend you give it a try. I’ll be on the lookout for more of Ms. Law’s…
Texas Splendor starts out like an “A” book. The characters are terrific, the conflict is interesting, and the sexual tension abounds. Toward the end, it loses its way – a little. It is still a good read, and a fitting end to a great trilogy. Austin Leigh has just spent five years in prison for…
There are some things I just don’t ever want to see in a romance novel, and two of those things appear in the first fifteen pages of The MacKenzie’s: Peter. The first no-no occurs when the heroine is having sex with someone other than the hero – in this case, the villain. The second no-no…
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