I’m a big – big – fan of Emma Holly who writes hot sex as well as great couples. I’m also a big – big – fan of stories in a series that stand on their own. They usually encompass a larger world of characters, but provide sufficient focus on two main ones. So when…
I requested this Dorothy Garlock because, though I knew she’d been around for ages, I’d never read a book by her before. When I told my mom during a phone call that I was reading Dorothy Garlock, she said “Oh, I used to really like her.” Those two facts should have alerted me to the…
Glittering Images is about British clergymen. How not-exciting does that sound? And yet it is one of the most suspenseful, riveting books I’ve ever had the pleasure to read. The novel centers around the institution of marriage, an institution that was undergoing change in England in the 1930s, when the book takes place. A bill…
Harper Allen’s The Man That Got Away is one of the most original debut romances I’ve ever come across, and one of my favorites. A time-travel romance with an unusual setting – 1930s Hollywood – it’s brimming over with creativity, excitement, emotion and a lot of heart. Most of all, it’s just a lot of…
Dorothy Garlock first drew my attention when she moved from 19th century to 20th century American settings, mining a time period that I love, and that has so far been underused by romance authors. I’ve read and enjoyed several of her books, and Mother Road is another to add to the list. Garlock specializes in…
The little town of Fertile, Missouri between the wars is the setting for this novel of love, crime, and secrets. There are lots of characters and subplots, but three main threads emerge. The first thread is about Julie Jones, an innocent, wholesome farm girl who left school at age fifteen when her mother fell sick….
Once in awhile there comes a story so completely transporting that, from the exhilarating experience of reading it, you emerge almost wordless. A review cannot fully describe what is indescribably beautiful. But I will say this: Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha is among the handful of works that come to my mind when confronted…
Tom Brokaw’s bestseller The Greatest Generation made a lot of people nostalgic for the WWII era. Certainly, Brokaw’s book didn’t sugar-coat things, but people’s memories do. The problem with nostalgia is that we only tend to dwell on the heroic, adventurous aspects of a time, and forget about the day-to-day struggles that were going on…
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