SUMMARY: Can love shatter her stubborn pride?In the high mountains of Colorado, Clayton Taggart dreams of the day when he can leave the rough life of a mines urveyor to become a teacher. In the midst of his plans, he meets Jackie Fontaine, a newcomer from the East whose strong willed spirit caus...
This book was my second pick for January that I finished a day or two into February. So, this book falls under February Book of The Month technically. There will be two more reviews after this one for February. I already have another review already handwritten and I just need to handwrite the sec...
I have lost count how many times I have read "the Princess." I think I must be somewhere north of a dozen by now. To be honest, that is where I stopped counting. It may be more than twenty. I own two copies: the one my aunt gifted me on my fifteenth birthday almost a decade ago and the reprint wi...
I really liked this book. I especially liked the main character, Smokey. I liked how strong and confident she was in her profession as a sea captain. I also liked how it was contrasted by how awkward and inept she was in social situations. I liked her determination. And I liked how much she relie...
Archineh Bryant’s life changes radically when her parents are killed in a car accident (obviously!), and she goes to live with her grandfather, Sam Bryant, an extremely wealthy businessman, who is a demanding workaholic. “Arcie,” insecure and fearful of being left alone in every way, grows up re...
I have no idea why i love this book so much but i do. It was one of the first books that i ever read that was more adult and for some reason it gets to me every time. I think i have read it at least 10 times again i don't know why its not like any other books i like. Its about a girl who wants be...
The beginning of this book was confusing. For the most part, the entire book is written in short segments that range from a couple of paragraphs in length up to an entire page. Occasionally some would clock in at 1.5 to 3 pages in length before switching to the next group of characters and/or s...
This first book in the Californian's series is an easy, enjoyable read, perhaps closer to a 3.5 for me. The main characters, Marshall Riggs and Kaitlin Donovan, are two people I ended up caring about, and the historical setting of San Francisco and Santa Rose, California seemed interesting and we...
Love stories make me want to do nothing but read. This is the second entry in the very pleasant Tucker Mills trilogy by Christian romance author Lori Wick, and it's an improvement over the first, but the story drags along at times due to the sheer number of characters Wick tries to balance in th...
When Travis and Rebecca marry, rumors quickly spread that he has done so only for her dying father’s ranch. Confused and convinced that Travis can never truly love her, Rebecca strikes out on her own. She disappears to make a new life for herself in a town far away, but her friends there are few,...
I'm not sure where to start with this train wreck of a book. It was confusing, disjointed, and poorly researched. The hero, Tanner, and heroine, Stacy, seem to fall in love with just a glance across the ballroom, and after he says a few rude things to her, she starts pining after him. Then after ...
This was a good story and my first Lori Wick.For awhile I was conflicted about what rating I would give, or whether I would finish. At first the characters seem to repeat observations and do a whole lot of telling the story rather than the plot moving much, but once Pup goes into the field thing...
4 stars! For me, this one SORTA had what the previous one lacked: a major issue that the hero and heroine had to overcome. Although I gotta say, I wasn't sure the hero was gonna figure things out... but once he put his mind to it (quite late in the game), it was like badda-bing badda-boom... ga...
I didn't like the start of the book because the protagonist, Lily Walsh, was initially portrayed as a person with low self-esteem. She hails from Kashien, a fictitious village where women are second-class citizens. She apologizes a lot and lowers her eyes whenever a man is around. I thought the s...
Rating: 6/10This was a favourite of mine when I was in my teens. Obviously I am a lot older and thus a different person so the soppiness and cheese got to a point where it was too much. Also their grief was touching to beginning with but after awhile, you get a little over reading about them cryi...
*****CAUTION: REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS*****Set in 1945 amid WWII, a young American woman and her sister take positions as Governesses for a wealthy rancher in Australia. On a flight to join the family for a vacation, the small plane crashes onto a deserted island in the Pacific killing the pilot ...
Yuck.I confess the characters were memorable. I liked the ones she took time to develop (Marrell, Paul, Jackson, Mackenzie, Delancy).But the book started SO SLOW and the writing was horrible. I cannot believe I finished all 600 something pages. I probably wouldn't have if the book hadn't been giv...
I loved this book SO much when I was 14. The sweeping Victorian period, the romance between the staid Brandon and impulsive Sunny, the exotic locales of Darhabar and England, all of it. But 20 years later, after re-reading this book, my feelings have changed quite a bit. Honestly, this book is st...
At 17 Sean Donovan has finally worked up the courage to leave Santa Rosa. Bitter and angry at his father's continued absence, Sean is determined to set out on his own, leaving his family and his God behind.For 2 years Sean finds odd jobs to earn money. He keeps moving in order to keep himself fro...
This book had been sitting on my shelf for a long time- so I thought it was high time to read it. I had seen mixed reviews, and my own were also rather mixed. In many ways, it was a sweet Romance which explored the deeper issues within relationships, such as learning to give and take and a good C...
Rating: 9/10Reading this brought back so many memories of my teenage years when I used to read this book all the time. It is a lovely story and it is hard not to love Slater. I also loved meeting all his brothers which made me super excited to read the following two books in the series, both abou...
Ross Beckett whom we met in The Long Road Home is now a lawyer in Baxter. Setting up his own practice and getting ready to move into a home with one of his friends.Silas and Amy are still childless. When they hear that 5 children just lost their mother and their father is missing, Amy is determin...