I’ll confess – I’m a woman who likes “guy things,” I like watching sports, I love the Three Stooges, and I’ll watch a good action movie any day of the week rather than a bad chick-flick. I hate to shop (except for books) and I’m perfectly happy without makeup. I think hair rollers were invented…
When I first began reading Romance, I didn’t know where to start. I went to my local UBS and stood amidst the isles, overwhelmed by the 7.56 bazillion titles from which to choose. With a crick in my neck from reading all those titles sideways, and bleary-eyed from all those different-yet-alike pictures of half-naked couples,…
When holding a manuscript instead of a book, it is not difficult to imagine how much work an author puts into writing anything of any size. Even knowing that, I had only a teeny bit of guilt over the rating. Remember the 80’s folks, where romances mostly lingered on like a nasty aftertaste, due to…
It’s still early yet, but Heart’s Desire already has my vote for worst read of the year. The lead characters behave abominably toward each other, the heroine’s introduction to the hero made me laugh out loud, and the author threw in so many catastrophes, it seemed like a parody of the worst soap opera. Thirty-year-old…
A Rancher’s Spittin’ Image is a big book in a small package. It has the character and plot development of a longer, single-title release, and manages to do both of these things quite well within the shorter length of a series romance. Jesse Barrister and Mandy McCloud are young lovers whose world is torn apart…
In the course of reading this book, I put it down several times. I kept expecting it to get better, liven up a little, but it never did – it’s just flat-out boring. And, since this is the third book in the series, if you haven’t read the preceding two stories, Jake and Ward, parts…
When you sit down to read a book, it’s sometimes hard to get into it when it’s the next in a series and the first two books really didn’t do it for you. That’s how I felt when I began to read Leigh Greenwood’s next book in his Cowboys series, Buck. It’s amazing, though, how…
Nobody’s Darling is not like any other western I’ve read in the past (which isn’t saying much). It is a delightfully funny book whose author boldly uses every western cliché known and does it well. At least in parts one and two. Part three is another story, however, and it is there that this book…
A Father’s Vow, the latest in the Montana Mavericks: Return to Whitehorn series, has just about everything I consider essential for a good book. In other words, it’s a winner. It begins with Julia Stedman’s arrival in Whitehorn, Montana as she searches for the father she has never known. While dining at the Hip Hop…
Drumveyn is an oddly muted novel about the rebirth of a woman after the death of her husband, and about the rebirth of her two grown children. The author juxtaposes very extreme circumstances for the three characters against a distance in the writing style. The result is that rather than feeling fully engaged in the…
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