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Review Date: 8/5/2008
Helpful Score: 1
Lady of the manor meets stable boy and they run away to America together. Cool story with a sad ending.
Review Date: 4/6/2009
Didn't anyone else get creeped out that the "young minister" who wanted Opal was old enough to have an illegitmate son who was around eight, and Opal (who takes up so much of this novel it should have been named after her "Opal II") was only 14!!! Uh, folks, nowadays that is called child molestation!
Review Date: 6/18/2019
OK, this is one of those times, I just have to write a review. The premise of this book is cute, about an heiress who wants to marry a hardworking man. The two characters, Xan and Judd, are unbelievable, unrealistic which makes the book painful to read. However, the writing is good, smooth and fast moving. I kept reading, hoping it would get better - like maybe Xan would wake up and realize that her fixation on this man is unhealthy because he is definitely weird, if not psychotic. Judd drew so many erroneous conclusions to think that his brothers set him up, you have to wonder, how did he ever succeed in business to become the wealthiest man in South Dakota. The story was horribly flawed, but the writing was well done. I would try another by this author and hope this one is not her norm.
Review Date: 10/24/2017
It is rare that I feel I really must write a review. This book was really bad! I usually love Mary Jo Putney, but if you haven't read this one, please give it a pass. I sped read the beginning and kept thinking it must get better. It never did. I have never like rape in novels, I lost track of the number of times it was described, enacted or discussed in this book. The description of how the main character serviced her husband - really, does this have to be described at all? Just yuck! I used to keep Putney's on my shelf as a sure to fulfill "good read". No longer. I am kind of scared to open another after this one.
Review Date: 4/21/2013
Wow! I have read several of the mysteries in this series and this is the best one by far! The back and forth of the retrospective and the current action was very effective in keeping up the suspense. Very cool references to the Agatha Christie novel, "And Then There Were None".
Review Date: 8/5/2008
Although this is an historical, with plenty of attention to detail, the story line is fast paced and keeps you going to the end.
Buried Truth (Badlands, Bk 2) (Love Inspired Suspense, No 257) (Larger Print)
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Review Date: 6/18/2019
This is one of those books, I felt I entered in the middle of the story. I had to see if there was a prior book which would help to figure out the story line. That being said, I liked the writing and the story. Having the heroine being older and wiser and getting over an addiction is an unusual twist to the story which made it fresh. I liked this story and will read more by this author.
Review Date: 8/8/2008
I love anything set in New Mexico but this story was a great "feel good" story.
Review Date: 6/15/2009
Great romance, action novel. Good depiction of early Colorado. Christian oriented but showing a real flesh and blood romance between two strong willed people.
Review Date: 8/8/2008
Woman falls in love with Indian captor. The story is actually really well written and includes a story about her mom and how her mom deals with her daughter's situation. Different.
Coming Home for Christmas: A Christmas in Paradise / O Christmas Tree / No Crib for a Bed (Harlequin Historical, No 1068)
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Review Date: 7/18/2012
What I like about Carla Kelly is that her stories are usually well developed and the hero and heroines are not cooky cutter idiots, like so many historical romances. The first story seemed a little rushed at the end; the second really needed another 50 pages to develop the romance and th third was a bit unrealistic when you consider the sex on the train. I think Ms Kelly needs more pages to develop her characters to her usual standard. I love her books, and recommend this one which is not as good as her longer novels, but still in the same style which she does so well.
Review Date: 6/1/2021
I thought this book was a little slow moving when I started it. It reads like a history book sometimes. However, I stuck with it and was absolutely astounded. I thought I knew the history of the Trail of Tears, but this book went into the details of what the Cherokee people had done to "settle" their land and create their own government before Andrew Jackson signed their removal orders. I've since seen a documentary of the same. This should be mandatory reading for high school English or history classes. Americans should be required to know what the Native peoples in this continent went through in the name of western expansion. I could not put the book down and I recommend this to anyone who wants to learn the realities the Native American faced when this country was established.
Review Date: 7/18/2012
I loved the novels in this series, having read Pasadena Promises first. However, I was disappointed in this novel. Imogene was unbelievable. I think she would really have been murdered due to her impetuous actions. The later novels are much better but this does provide the background for what happens later.
Review Date: 8/4/2008
Helpful Score: 2
Wow this guy was insanely charming to woo these professional women, get them to pay for his excessive lifestyle and then even kill one of them. He gets what he deserves at the end but the story is gripping. It really makes you think about those charmers out there!
Review Date: 8/4/2008
A case of mistaken identity - a preacher's daughter mistaken for a soiled dove. The hero ends up "having to marry her".
Review Date: 8/5/2008
This is an early Coulter where rape is still an acceptable form of seduction.
Review Date: 8/9/2008
Clara Melton lived, loved and fought in a man's world with a woman's cunning, a warrior's courage, and a fiery spirit that would become known throughout the land. But the noblewoman who set forth to carve a fur-trading empire in American's savage wilderness would become legend as the white woman who conquered the land, the warrior and the Thunder Horse, Firecloud.
From the back cover.
From the back cover.
First Love, Second Chance (Family Man) (Harlequin Superromance, No 640)
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Review Date: 8/4/2008
Bad man gets older and wiser and trys to make up for bad boy behavior ten years earlier. Having a sweet little girl helps his cause.
Review Date: 4/13/2010
Helpful Score: 2
Actually, this is really a biography about Galileo, not his daughter. However, it is very easy to read and the author sprinkles letters to Galileo from his daughter to keep it interesting.
Review Date: 10/3/2009
I heard this book on tape and it was excellent. Made the miles fly by!
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