I’ve read a lot of Diane Chamberlain and I’ve found it to be a hit or miss affair. I loved Keeper Of The Light and Fire and Rain, but not Summer’s Child or Breaking The Silence . The Courage Tree falls somewhere in the middle; it’s good escapist reading, but not completely satisfying. What you…
As I was watching the movie The Parent Trap recently, I realized this book is a lot like it, albeit in a tragic rather than comedic sense. Twins bring their parents back together, but with more disastrous circumstances. Daisy Tucker’s daughter, Sage, has run away. Daisy and Sage live in Connecticut. Daisy’s ex-husband James lives…
It is difficult to think of a way to describe Angel Falls that will not turn off readers who hate amnesia stories. This book, technically speaking, is an amnesia story, that is it is a story where one of the main characters, the heroine, gets amnesia. But saying that Angel Falls is an amnesia story…
Finding Ian is Stella Cameron’s first “big” book in the sense that it is neither genre romance nor romantic suspense. It is “women’s fiction.” Though there is a romance between Byron Frazer and Jade Perron, the book is more concerned with with Byron and Jade finding themselves rather than each other. Byron also has to…
Earlier this year I read Maggie Osbourne’s I Do, I Do, I Do, which was so good it gave me a taste for bigamy plots. While I didn’t enjoy Our Husband quite as much, it’s a good read, reminiscent of books by two of my favorite writers: Olivia Goldsmith and Susan Issacs. Travelling salesman Raymond…
This book is for anyone who has ever been to a wedding, been in a wedding, known a bride or has been a bride. Weddings bring out the best and the worst in people. Brides want their wedding to be the best there ever was: the best food, the best music, the prettiest gown, and…
It says “romance” on the spine of this novel, but that’s really a misnomer. A romance is the story of a courtship: boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, there’s some strife and then they live happily ever after. The Caleb Trees is about what happens after the fairytale ends and life begins….
When I was around twelve, I read the book A Woman of Substance and I seem to remember enjoying it, although I may not remember the story very well. After reading Barbara Taylor Bradford’s latest offering all I can think is that I either wasn’t very choosy at twelve or the author’s writing has gone…
I’m not usually a big fan of women’s fiction, but I always read Rosamunde Pilcher. Sinead O’Connor may tell us that “England’s not the mythical land of Madame George and roses,” but when you read Pilcher’s books, you can’t help thinking that England is something of a mythical land after all. A beautiful place, where…
This book has tear-jerker written all over it. And I am so glad I read it. So get ready, and I’ll try not to sound too much like Amy Yurk’s public relations rep. I’ll also try not to use too many cliched words and phrases to describe this book, but I make no promises. This…
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