Nothing pleases me quite like a good Western. I’m not sure what it is: maybe the lure, for this city-dweller, of wide-open spaces, maybe the idea that living in the 19th-century West was not for the faint of heart. More than a few of the books on my keeper shelf are Westerns. Unhappily, Texas Proud…
Wow! Who could have known that greased pig races, astronomy and romance could mix so well? Geralyn Dawson threw these seemingly unrelated subjects together and whipped up a story that sent me into fits of laughter. It’s not just a funny story, however. The Kissing Stars is a book about second chances, and the lessons…
This was an impulse buy, and like many impulses, I lived to regret giving in to it. There really isn’t anything wrong with the book – but there isn’t really anything right about it, either. It’s just boring. The characters are boring, the story is boring, the writing is boring. It’s been four years since…
Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Lady Be Good is, in a word, terrific. The characters are richly drawn, and that includes both the primary hero and heroine, and the secondary characters as well. It’s hilarious too, incredibly sexy, and extremely well written – included in all that funny and sensual writing is a surprising amount of depth….
Sandra Brown is well-known for her contemporary novels, but Hidden Fires is an example of one of her attempts at a historical romance novel. The characters, plot, setting, and conflict of the novel are very typical, nothing special or out of the ordinary. Not too complicated, not too sensual, and not too surprising, Hidden Fires…
Well, no matter how hard I try to avoid it, I seem to run across somebody’s opinion on a book I’m reviewing. I try my best to ignore other reviews until I’ve had a chance to read the book myself, but I still hear a lot of comments such as, “this is an A book,”…
Jake Maxwell has just returned from the Civil War to find his family’s land stolen and his cattle scattered all over Texas. While Jake was off fighting for what he believed in, mean-spirited and greedy farmers have destroyed what he had set out to build. Now they want Jake to pay reparations for the damage…
I wanted to like Texas Lucky by Maggie James. The cover of the book alone is sublime. Also, it sounded like my kind of story. Cowboy romances are among my favorites, and this one seemed to fit the bill. Set in the Southwest and Texas sometime vaguely after the Civil War, it is about a…
The summary on the back cover of Always To Remember ends with the statement that “sometimes love – like courage – whispers instead of shouts.” That is how I will remember this book. It is filled with small moments. There is no feisty heroine and no arrogant hero. There are simply two wounded people brought…
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