I was slightly leery about reading this book, the first for this author in several years. I have read most of Jill Barnett’s backlist. When she’s on, her books take on a life of themselves. But there have been a few stinkers that make me ask, “is this the same woman?” I chose this title…
It is very rare for me to receive a book in the mail, sit down immediately and read the whole thing in one sitting. But, Barbara Samuel’s Madame Mirabou’s School of Love hooked me in from page one and the next thing I knew it was midnight and I’d finished it. It’s a wonderful story…
When it comes to misunderstandings, the ones between heroes and heroines of romance novels pale beside those between mothers and daughters. That’s the theme of The Cotton Queen, Pamela Morsi’s sometime funny and sometime poignant woman’s novel set in a small town near Dallas that follows the lives of Babs Hoffman and her daughter Laney….
Occasionally I like to dip into Women’s Fiction, where the stories have sharper depictions of today’s real problems and less fairy tale-like resolutions than straight contemporary romances. Lisa Wingate’s Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner was an angst-filled read, but warmth and great comic relief tempered the angst. Single mother Lindsey is a…
I haven’t made a secret of the fact that Kathleen Gilles Seidel is one of my favorite authors. She may be my favorite author, period. You have to wait a while between books, but hers are always worth it. When I heard that she was coming out with a new book, I was, of course,…
Stacy Kavanaugh is just trying to get on with her life. Hopefully just days, if not hours, away from negotiating the final property settlement with her soon-to-be-ex husband Daniel, she decides to give into his latest requests – the fondue set and pasta machine. Dealing with him or his bimbo girlfriend has become too much…
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 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 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!
Coyote Dream is labeled Fiction, but it tells a love story satisfying enough for any romance reader. At the risk of making a comparison the book can’t live up to, it reminded me somewhat of Kathleen Gilles Seidel’s books: quiet, insightful and character rich. It’s that type of book. Sarah Friedman is in her early…
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