Daddy By Choice is a baby book. The hero is a former cowboy. The cover is really, really ugly (is that man sewing)? So naturally, I passed it up. No I didn’t. Daddy By Choice is by Paula Detmer Riggs and anyone who can do as she did with Her Secret, His Child, which was…
Border Heat had the potential to be a good and quick read – until the subplots started fighting for attention. Unfortunately, the upshot is that the heroine’s most important goals are forgotten in the middle of a subplot involving the hero’s involvement Mexican politics. Texas native Leticia Rodriguez has two main goals – to save…
I am thankful for buzz. Good or bad, it often draws my attention to books I’d otherwise overlook. There was so much buzz about the horrid cover of Rio Grande Wedding that I couldn’t resist picking it up when I spotted it to see whether it lived up to its bad rep. Yikes, it was…
Texas Destiny is a Beauty and the Beast story, a road romance, and quite possible the most tear-inducing book I have ever read in my life. I’ve often thought if I could get a copy into the hands of all the fans of romance novels and then buy stock in the companies that make hankies,…
I’ve read a lot of historical romances set in Texas, but almost all of them were set in the 1870s and 1880s. When I saw that San Antonio Rose was set during Texas’ War for Independence, I couldn’t help but be interested. It was an exciting time in history that is woefully underused in romance…
Heaven, Texas is the second book in Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ football series, all of which can be read independently from one another. The first book in her football series is It Had To Be You, continues with Nobody’s Baby But Mine, and finishes with Dream a Little Dream. Personally, I do not like football. I…
I was delighted to find that Chance of a Lifetime is set in Fort Davis, Texas, in 1868, since our family visited that site recently and I had thought it would make a wonderful setting for a novel. My delight had waned, however, by the end of the first chapter. An annoying heroine combined with…
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…