How would I describe The Wedding Officer? In a word – beautiful. I so enjoyed this book that I wanted more of the wonderful characters and setting. Anthony Capella does an amazing job of describing wartime Italy, the seductive beauty of the Southern part of the country, the richness of Italian food, the horror of…
Somehow I suspect that the hero in High Plains Bride did not expect to find the woman who betrayed him fourteen years earlier showing up on his doorstep and demanding favors of him at gunpoint. Still, that is just how the book opens and the broken relationship that is healed and rekindled kept me reading…
When an author has the ability to make a reader lose herself in a story and to create characters who are so overwhelming that every word or action has a double meaning, you know you have a winner. And if the reader wants to go back and re-read the story a second time because the…
Wow, I loved this one. Reality TV has landed in Misty Creek, Kentucky by way of Dancing with the Rednecks, a spoof on the popular Dancing with the Stars, produced by the Comedy Corner network (read: the fictional version of Comedy Central). Twelve Average Joes will compete for the grand prize of $50,000, each with…
I first read and loved Howl’s Moving Castle when it was published twenty years ago. In my umpteenth re-reading of the book for this DIK review, I realize I still love it as much as ever. It is, in my opinion, one of the best novels ever about finding yourself and about the nature of…
The Fortune Quilt has something for everyone: A sweet romance, snazzy chick-lit type heroine, and enough family and personal dilemma to satisfy the women’s fiction lovers out there. I’ve been a fan of Lani Diane Rich since picking up her debut novel, Time Off for Good Behavior. While I have loved every one of her…
This book is a true Desert Island Keeper for me: After reading a online recommendation in 2000 and recalling that I had read a few of Patricia C. Wrede’s fantasy novels years before and enjoyed them tremendously, I went and ordered a copy of the first edition (the only one then available) for more than…
Magical. In a word, that’s my reaction to Shana Abe’s simply fabulous fantasy romance. Yes, the hero is manipulative, there’s no denying that. But – and this is a very important but – I never doubted for a moment that Christoff, Marquess of Langford, is gobsmacked by heroine Clarrissa Rue Hawthorne from the moment he…
I wanted to do something special for my 50th review for AAR. After reading Susan Carroll’s magnificent Winterbourne (originally published in 1987), I knew this was that something. The Medieval Romance is one of my favorite sub-genres, and they are few and far between. Good ones are hard to find…great ones even more rare. Susan…
Knit Two Together is a wonderful book where not a lot goes on, but what happens comes out of well-drawn characters. It is a joy to read and my first DIK in a while. Libby Cambridge thinks she has the perfect marriage and at age forty looks forward to watching her teenage daughter grow up…
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