Showing posts with label appealing characteristic-setting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label appealing characteristic-setting. Show all posts
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Tempting Fate by Stacy Finz

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In earlier Nugget books, Raylene Rosser was decidedly the villain. And in this book, she's the heroine. It's a long slog to get her ...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

The River House by Carla Neggers

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Felicity MacGregor really enjoys her life. She's an event planner and, while there's not a ton of work for her in Knights Bridge, th...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Hope for Christmas by Stacy Finz

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In a previous Nugget book, we met Emily and Clay McCreedy. She's a famous cookbook author while he's a rancher. They've created ...
Sunday, October 1, 2017

Bachelor Games by Daire St. Denis

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Becca and Grace have always been a team. Grace is the beauty while Becca is the brains. And even though Grace is the elder, Becca has been ...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Christmas at Two Love Lane by Kieran Kramer

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I was intrigued by the premise of this book. You've got a Southern matchmaker, Macy Frost, meeting a Northerner who just wants to have f...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Halloween at the Graff by Sinclair Jayne

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Walker Wilder has retreated to Marietta, Montana, home of the cousins she's never met, to lick her wounds. Her boyfriend was schtupping ...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Twelve Slays of Christmas by Jacqueline Frost

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Oh. This book started off so well. Holly White is back in her hometown, not because she wants to be there, but because she was dumped by her...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh

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The beginning of this book started off so well. A feisty heroine set in amongst the dons of Prince's College, Cambridge -- catnip. And a...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Death of a Bachelorette by Laura Levine

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I had read a few Jaine Austen books but ended up giving up on the series.  There are a lot of cozy series I really enjoyed and this one didn...
Friday, May 26, 2017

The Lady Travelers Guide to Scoundrels and Other Gentlemen by Victoria Alexander, Victoria Alexander

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I was quite excited about this book and maybe set my expectations a little bit too high. It is the story of India Prendergast who is trying ...
Monday, February 20, 2017

What It Takes: A Kowalski Reunion Novel by Shannon Stacey

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Up front, in the subtitle in fact, we're told that this is a Kowalski Reunion novel and are thus forewarned that there will be a LOT of ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Jed and the Junkyard War by Steven Bohls

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Jed's parents have been doing strange things like dropping him off in the middle of Yellowstone and expecting him home in eleven hours s...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Wild at Whiskey Creek by Julie Anne Long

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Glory Greenleaf comes from the wrong side of the tracks. Her family is poor and her brother has been arrested for running meth. Arrested by ...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan

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So, on my Goodreads review, I rounded up my review of this ARC from three and a half stars to four because it just generally gave me good fe...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

The Christmas Challenge by Sinclair Jayne

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I rarely read books set in Montana because I live here and I hate it when authors get it wrong. This book didn't get it wrong because th...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

The Duke of Deception by Darcy Burke

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Aquilla Knox has carefully crafted a persona over the past five seasons that will make her unappealing to suitors. In fact, she wouldn't...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Blood Red Kiss -- anthology

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The Warlord Wants Forever  by Kresley Cole I only just discovered the Immortals After Dark series and when I had a chance to read the first...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

By Firelight by Janice Maynard

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By Firelight Grant Monroe is enjoying being by himself in his mountain cabin when, during a heavy snow storm, there's a sudden thunk at...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Woman in the Shadows by Jane Thynne

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I requested this book from NetGalley thinking it might be rather like a Susan Elia MacNeal book. Unfortunately, it was rather more of a trud...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Wrong Place, Right Time by Elle Casey

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So, you know how annoying a plot moppet is? Well, this plot moppet had a lisp (lithp?) and he talks a lot. A LOT. I usually give ARCs a litt...