Sometimes an author gets too ambitious. In a series romance, due to length restraints, there really is only room for a story about a developing relationship, with maybe a tiny bit of subplot thrown in. In Springwater Seasons: Savannah, Linda Lael Miller attempts the impossible – to stuff a book with fewer than 150 pages…
Cherish is beautifully written and has wonderfully drawn characters, but it was so grim and gritty that it reminded me why western romances usually fall into the category of books I normally read only if they’re light and humorous. Race Spencer comes across a slaughter in an arroyo while he’s out on a cattle drive….
Only With You is not really a story about two people who fall in love. Rather, it’s a story about a heroine who thinks she’s in love with her best friend’s fiance‚ until the second to last chapter, and a hero who finally tells the heroine he loves her on the last line of the…
Inspirational novels can be difficult to review. You can’t exactly give a novel a lower grade simply because you don’t agree with the beliefs of the author. As you might expect from an inspirational novel, the crux of this novel is a spiritual conflict. The hero has rejected God, and the heroine feels compelled to…
The Rebel is the third installment in the Men of Pride County series, and it is definitely a departure from the other two. While the hero is a man from Pride County, almost all of the story is set in territorial New Mexico. And unlike the other two, the bulk of the story takes place…
The Outsider is a keeper. It’s also the second book in Rosalyn West’s The Men of Pride County series. Set in post-Civil War Kentucky, the series features a divided county trying to heal its war wounds. The hero of The Outsider was first introduced in the series’ first book – The Outcast. It definitely helps…
I don’t think that there is any sadder time in history than the American Civil War period. I used to read about those times a lot, until I watched the PBS series on the Civil War. Reading about the Civil War always depressed me, but after that series, I lost my enthusiasm for it, and…
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,”…
Well, I have to say that I liked Ward better than I liked Jake, but this series still lacks the spark of the Seven Brides series. I feel like I’m going to harp here but again, Ward lacks tension; it lacks some real interest to get things going, and this does not bode well for…
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…
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