I like a good Western and I enjoy discovering good, new-to-me authors, so I thought I’d give Lady Gone Bad a try. From the plot and the back cover blurb, one gets the impression that it’s supposed to be an action-packed road romance. Reality falls short somewhat, though, as vague plotting and haphazard characterizations drag…
The Wild West is the land of opportunity in Luck’s story. Englishmen are investing in cattle ranches, and cowboys have been elevated to mythical proportions. If nothing else, Luck uses her canvas as an historical information dump with nearly every page brimming with information about the antics of the white people on the prairie. Lady…
I love stories about treasure hunts. It’s not the money that intrigues me but the mystery and the long search for forgotten clues and mislaid information. I also love the idea of history rediscovered. In many cases it brings to light where loved ones rest and allows for a proper burial and monument. This book…
Just as she didn’t in the previous books, Levine doesn’t romanticize or sugarcoat life on the American frontier in the latest of her Men of Defiance series. Neither Sarah, a white woman who was kidnapped, abused, and repeatedly raped by a Sioux warrior, nor Logan, owner of a number of trading posts, walk lightly through…
Recent discussion on the message boards had me thinking about Maggie Osborne and how much I enjoy her books, The Seduction of Samantha Kincade in particular. The funny thing is that I couldn’t remember what it was about this book that had me suggesting it to other readers, beyond a feeling that it was special….
Colorado Dawn is the fifth in a row of fabulous westerns by Kaki Warner. As with the previous four books, the dialog is witty, the characters are lovable, and the plot is interesting and plausible. This book, the second in the Heartbreak Creek trilogy, is a heart-warming romance in which two strong characters have to…
It’s easy to forget that just a scant hundred years ago people all over this country lived under rough, primitive conditions. That in 1910, the West was still being won. And it is painful to be reminded that for many centuries people of all kinds faced prejudices in this great melting pot of ours. Some…
On paper, I should have liked Susanna’s Choice more. The setting (1878, Virginia City) was of high interest to me. The plot sounded promising. But I just couldn’t warm up to the characters – any of them. When Susanna Ward’s family dies quickly from cholera on the Oregon Trail, many members of her wagon train…
Whenever I read of the hardships the gold miners went through to get to the fields in Alaska, I’m always amazed not only that they weathered the mountains and rivers amid the cold and unusually long or short days and nights, but also that so many stayed and built a life there. Beautiful scenery and…
I think confidence is the new feisty. It is okay to doubt yourself to an extent, to not be so confident you come across as obnoxiously full of yourself, but a woman is expected to have faith in her own self-worth these days. The whole confidence game snuck up on me; I wasn’t aware of…
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