I read Semi-Sweet: A Novel of Love and Cupcakes last year and liked a lot. However it didn’t send me out looking for Ms. Meaney’s backlist. One reason is that I hadn’t read a novel with bittersweet elements in a while, since funny and laugh-out-loud books are typically my preference. But the impressive storytelling stayed…
We’ve all complained before about the books with the evil ex. It seems that to be a widow, divorcee, or ditched girlfriend of one’s previous significant other must be the worst sort of person imaginable. This novel is a refreshing take on what happens when you find The One – and then lose him. Are…
Reading the first person excerpt, I had expectations of When in Doubt, Add Butter being a slightly humorous chick lit novel, but by the second chapter I knew that it was going to be much more. At times funny, then poignant and romantic, the book is a smorgasbord of delights. Thirty-seven year old Gemma Craig…
Even with my strong feelings about adultery, I can read and accept it within certain circumstances. Some authors have the ability to create viable shades of grey that make me think, okay it is wrong, but I can understand why it happened. Ms. Porter is not one of them, at least not in this book….
Can an unpretentious story with simple characters set against the backdrop of the Arkansas Ozark Mountains be a Desert Island Keeper? It can when it is written by Pamela Morsi and includes her trademark humor and gift of storytelling. With a fixed fake smile on her face and a litany of “I am just so…
It has been a long time since a book kept me up until 3 a.m. reading. I tried to turn out the lights at 12 a.m but lay there unable to sleep, thinking about the characters’ journey. I had to know how it ended. Beautifully written Where We Belong is a novel teeming with a…
Women’s fiction books fall on a continuum with some having more similarity to genre romance while others read more like mainstream fiction. While a A Simple Thing is closer to mainstream fiction than romance, there is a background romance that adds color to the story and heightened my enjoyment of it. Susannah had an alcoholic…
In a bit of irony last year I requested Ten Beach Road by Ms. Wax, but the package was ripped apart in shipping and I never received the book. So this year when I saw her name on the review list, I immediately requested her. I wish I had known that these books were part…
I am not sure why I have never read a book by Diane Chamberlain. I suspect my initial impression was that they were too angst-filled, but that is not the case with The Good Father. Using a deft hand, the author explores several emotionally sensitive subjects in this latest release. Six weeks earlier, Travis Brown’s…
Do you like stories with ghosts? Make that a hot, sexy, male ghost. Then this debut novel may just fit the bill. While it had many things that I really liked, including strong family relationships, it had too many others that I didn’t. In the end, this was just an average, albeit different, book for…
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