The Girl She Left Behind

I enjoyed The Girl She Left Behind much more while I was reading it than after I finished it. The whole narrative seemed to be building up to a momentous conclusion that, well, that just never materialized. Katherine “Kat” Earle left her small Montana hometown of Silver Creek when she was eighteen. She eloped with…

Once Upon A Bride

Once Upon A Bride is the first of a series involving four friends who join forces to start a business. Second Chances, their store, caters to the woman who is marrying for the second time. I hope that the other books in the series are more interesting than this one, because not much happens here….

More Than Words

More Than Words is an anthology of stories inspired by real- life women and their true situations. One story is the best I’ve read this year, the others are only about average, and the book is expensive. Caveat emptor!

A Taste of Reality

A Taste of Reality is not the first book I’ve read that centers on a sassy black heroine who’s making her way in life despite relationship and career issues. It is, however, the first one I have intensely disliked, owing to a selfish, two-faced heroine, a sagging plot, and some very confused race issues. If…

Blooming All Over

Blooming All Over is the follow-up novel to Love in Bloom’s, a book I’d heard positive things about, both from AAR staff and from friends. I regret to say that I did not find the Bloom family as charming or as funny as they apparently did. Blooming All Over is about the complications the various…

Dance with Me by Luann Rice

Sometimes, despite an author’s obvious writing skills, a book just fails to get off the ground. For me, Dance With Me was one of them. Although technically well-written, it reminded me of several other authors who write in this same style. The characters are so middle-America as to be bland and uninteresting, and the plot…

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