THE APPLE ORCHARDSusan WiggsThis is a wonderful book about unknown family. Tess Delany makes her living returning stolen treasures to their rightful owner. Out of the blue, attorney, Dominic Rossi arrives to tell her the grandfather she never knew is in a coma, and she has been named to inherit h...
Meh. This was a dud for me.Seriously underwhelmed by this book, which I got for free as a giveaway at a conference. The first 100 pages of the story were unnecessary and embarrassingly repetitive, telling rather than showing the inner conflict/motivation and backstory of the two contemporary roma...
sonnet was raised by her mom her father was a student at west point when in the heat of passion got sonnetsmim pregnant.when sonnet was in college her father finally reached out to her from then on everything she did was about making him proud. her job even the guy she dated, his rigjht hand man ...
The Goodbye Quilt is a lovely story of a mother and daughter relationship revealed during a cross country drive to move the daughter into her college dorm. As a quilter, I found the quilting in the story distracting. Is the quilt being quilted? Is it being embellished with embroidery? What ab...
This started off like a romance novel - girl meets boy under inauspicious circumstances but you know they will end up together - and I was wondering why I had thought I wanted to read this book. Then, we got into the stories of the grandfather's life in Denmark during WW II when the Nazis were in...
This is my first book from Susan Wiggs, so it is basically a standalone novel for me. I liked the character of Daisy - she is smart, she longs for a stable life and she makes stupid mistake. She is like the kind of people we know, which is why it made this book so readable. Yet, I wished for more...
Every December I read a holiday story, and this is one of the better ones I have found. I had not read any others in the Lakeshore series, but it did not seem to matter as this stood on its own, though it does leave a minor character's (Daisy) future uncertain. I loved that the main character was...
Summer Brides by Susan Wiggs Love this anthology as it contains 3 of the best romance writers out there. The places they take you to and the things you learn make this a very worthwhile read.The Borrowed Bride by Susan WiggsIsabel Wharton lives on Bainbridge Island in WA and has a nursery busines...
I like Susan Wiggs books. I like the settings, i.e., lodge, lake, snow. It is nice to read a book where the author can tell a story without adding every five pages explicit personal activities during private moments! From past books, I immediately remembered Daisy but not Logan. And I was pleasan...
It took me a while to start enjoying this book. At first I thought, "O.K. so this is a book about you and your daughter." And it was a bit tedious. But by the end of the book I really liked it. She does bring up quilting quite a bit in her writings, but I finally figured out that it's somewhat sy...
Molly is headed for college and she is driving cross-country with her mother to get there. As they travel her mother, Linda, works on a quilt to celebrate this new chapter in Molly's life. The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs is about loving and letting go, something that every parent must do at some...
Every once in a while, you just have to read a good romance novel and this book fit the bill. I've not read any of Susan Wigg's other novels in The Lakeshore Chronicles series, so I was unfamiliar with the characters, however, that didn't matter in the least - this book stands well on its own. ...
A nice story about an unmarried librarian, an unmarried and unwed Mom, an unmarried childhood Christmas movie star whose fame does not dim because his movie his shown every Christmas season, and the mysterious Jabez, the first person we meet but about whom we seem to learn so little. Christmas i...
The first novel in this trilogy was interesting. This one (the secoond), however was just a touch of fluff. The historical references were minimal, and character development lacked. I did piece together the best quote of book one. Juliaana sees an older gentleman holding a bay girl. She inq...
This second novel is very nice but I had to start some time after I had finished reading the other. I do not know why, novels are enjoyable, a lot, but then finished reading, I can not start the next in the trilogy! In this novel, I can still say that I really liked the male lead that I found ver...
Read so many great reviews of this book, so I'm not really sure why I seemed to be the only one to not enjoy it. As an engaged person myself, I was hoping for some pointers. Instead, I got to read a story of a privileged bride who doesn't realize she's privileged. She tries to make the argumen...
When it comes to true love there are second chances in Susan Wiggs' novel Summer by the Sea.From the moment Rosa Capoletti met Alexander Montgomery when she was nine and he ten, they shared an instant connection, one that would create memories of a magical summer. That fateful summer paved the wa...
(...)Gostei muito mais deste livro do que estava à espera. Acho que grande parte da razão disso ter acontecido está relacionado com o facto de a personagem principal não vir de famílias importantes. Era uma rapariga habituada a ser um rato de esgoto e a que todos a olhassem de lado, sendo que qua...
This had an interesting twist the normal Historical Romance in that the heroine, Eliza, was not the typical helplesss female of the 1850's. She was raised by her father, and the 2 of them were all alone on an island off the coast of Virigina. She knew next to nothing about her mother, and all she...
RATING = 3.75 starsSusan Wiggs' The Ocean Between Us has been in my to-read pile for a while now, so I finally decided to try it out. I'm not a huge reader of chick lit and I've never read a book by this author before, so I wasn't really sure what to expect going into it. I was pretty surprised b...
I rarely read two books by the same author one after the other but these were in the same volume, so, having loved The Goodbye Quilt, I turned straight to Home Before Dark. For me it was a mistake. Whether it was me or the book is debatable. Initially this story was written 8 years before The Goo...