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My Desert Island Keepers are those in which the author has given me something to think about beyond the romance and the two people involved. A Reason to Live does that by extending what could be an ordinary on-the-road story into a commentary essential to all of us.
In fact, McKade’s entire ser ...
For me, comfort reads often involve a lot of angst. Something about the theme of love as redemption, and seeing love heal characters and help free themselves from their suffering reaches me on a deeply emotional level. That's one of the reasons I enjoy Karen Ranney's work; she does tortured characte ...
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Had my sister not recommended Mr. Family to me, I probably wouldn’t have picked it up. The cover is ultra precious, and the title is just plain bad. But I trust my sister and I’ve read Margot Early before so I figured, "What the heck." I really wasn’t expecting a story as touching as this one ...
Much as I loved Almost a Gentleman, I was almost afraid to sit down and write the review. Pam Rosenthal's romance debut is a masterful mix of bold and subtle writing elements. Knowing that, I knew anything I write will hardly do the book justice. But since this is a review site and I've offered to r ...
A Season In Eden is the type of book that I normally avoid at all costs. I'm not a big fan of heartache and grief-filled stories and never read one if I can avoid it. I steer clear of mainstream "women's fiction" for exactly this reason. Reality surrounds me and if I want a good cry all I have to do ...
Mako Yoshikawa's debut novel is exquisite. Here is a tale of a modern, young Japanese-American woman's search for truth, presented as a tapestry interwoven with luminous threads of emotion, sensuality, and human connections in a world in which joy seldom comes without its measure of pain. This is no ...
Clay Yeager's Redemption is another terrific series romance - I seem to be reading a lot of them lately am thoroughly enjoying myself! It's an intense story of one man's efforts to deal with the aftermath of a family tragedy, and the woman he meets who is haunted by her own demons. Davis takes a fam ...
Some readers love books that are emotionally intense. I am not one of them, but if I were, Barbara Freethy would be on the top of my list. One True Love is a beautifully written book about two people who have been through an experience that any parent who loves his or her newborn has had nightmares ...
One True Love is a very good contemporary romance that gives the reader three love stories all blended into a fast-moving and often very emotional novel.
The main story is the reunion of Nick Maddux and his former wife Lisa Alvarez. Nick and Lisa were married eight years ago and were deeply in lo ...
This book packs an emotional wallop unlike anything I have experienced in a long time. I started reading it at 11 o'clock at night and didn't quit until I finished it three hours later. I was sleep-deprived, but all I can think of is how much more deprived I would be if I had never read this simple, ...