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,”…
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…
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…
Reading a Leigh Greenwood is like reading a play, almost straight dialogue. He’s a storyteller, and that’s fine, the characters all have their say, but the reader is left to fill in most of the details. While Ward’s story was okay, it left me feeling like I was missing something. By comparison, Jake was a…
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…
Jake is the first book in Leigh’s new series The Cowboys. I liked Jake Maxwell a lot and I liked the heroine, Isabelle Davenport, equally as much. I also liked how these two took on eleven orphans, whether Jake wanted to or not, and gave them a purpose in life, a reason to live, and…
I just finished The Bequest and, well, you’ll have to excuse me now, but I have to go take a long, hot bath. Soak in the water. Wash away all that whorehouse grime. Yuck. Candice Proctor’s first book, Night in Eden, examined the horrific conditions women faced as convicts in Regency-era England. The Bequest deals…
This was the first book by Lorraine Heath that I read, and it is a memorable one. Sweet Lullaby is one of those truly wonderful romances that you never want to see end but when it does, you’re so glad you read it. I’ve read many of Lorraine Heath’s books since then and she’s never…