I had no interest in Eat, Pray, Love in either book or movie form; it just sounded self-indulgent to me. But a novel about a female naturalist in the nineteenth century stumbling on ideas similar to Darwin’s? Sign me up! I loved The Signature of All Things – it’s an excellent reminder of why I…
Untouched, Anna Campbell’s sophomore effort, is a flat-out terrific book whose leading man has just landed on my short list for Favorite Hero of the year. Widow Grace Paget wakes up from a laudanum-induced sleep to find herself strapped to a table and in the company of a madman. After wandering around Bristol looking for…
I thoroughly enjoyed this book to the point where I could not put it down to attend to such routine things like eating. I was riveted from the first page to the last. This second book in Quinn’s Ivory Nation trilogy should go on everyone’s must buy list. Botanist Laura Clark and her history professor…
Despite a few minor problems, Glenna McReynold’s River of Eden is a pulse-pounding thrillride, a sensual love story, and a surreal adventure into the mystical unknown, all rolled into one. And this page-turner will hold you in its thrall long after those minor problems are forgotten. Dr. Annie Parrish is an ethnobotanist on a mission…
As I read One Perfect Mate I kept trying to think what it reminded me of. A novel that’s a cross between a mail-order bride romance and Logan’s Run doesn’t come my way very often, and yet I had that nagging feeling. By book’s end I realized where the feeling was coming from. The protagonists…
Don’t let the “Contemporary Women’s Fiction” label fool you; In the Midnight Rain is about as romantic as it gets. This is my first Ruth Wind, and oh my, how this lady can tell a tale. For those of you, like myself, who have memories of what it was like to send boys we cared…
If you’ve ever been denied the chance to do what you love, you’ll empathize with Caroline Grayson. She’s a brilliant botanist and an accomplished mathematician. Unfortunately, she lives in Regency England, so her abilities make her an outcast. It isn’t seemly for a woman to study the sciences. Desperate to live her dreams, Caroline makes…
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