Romance

Book Review: 'A Hopeless Romantic' by Harriet Evans

1/22/2012
Jackie Morrison
Addicted to love is still addiction

For some women the notion of finding a knight on a white horse does not end with adulthood. In A Hopeless Romantic we see how much romance and its fantasy has been the most difficult thing to achieve for Laura Foster. This is the sad thing about living your life with expectations based on romance novels and romantic movies. Real life never measures up to fiction. To expect it to is to only set oneself up for disappointment. Unfortunately Laura does not realize this and in her frenetic endless search for her Prince Charming there is disaster on the way.

Book Review: 'Love Always' by Harriet Evans

1/22/2012
Jackie Morrison
Family entaglements and the ties that bind

When an Anglo-Indian woman discovers an old family secret from her grandfathers it changes her perspective of her own identity. Natasha Kapoor loves visiting her grandparents’ home on the coast. She is enjoying a swinging London lifestyle that includes a career as a successful jewelry designer. She's also married and about to be divorced. When her grandmother dies and she visits her ancestral home in Cornwall for the funeral it sparks unanswered questions to a lifelong mystery.

Book Review: 'Happily Ever After' by Harriet Evans

1/22/2012
Jackie Morrison
The choices we makes in the past haunt us forever

Harriet Evans has established herself as a leading author of women's literature. The British writer has already published several books that touch upon the themes of the modern woman's struggle with relationships and love. While this genre is certainly covered by many other authors, Evans is without doubt original and refreshing with her formula-free tales. In Happily Ever After Evans brings us a new story about the perils of being young and searching for a happy ending.

Snowflake Bride by Jillian Hart

11/29/2011

Ruby and Lorenzo's story grips you and holds you all the way through. It is a book you cannot put down. I can relate to a lot of the things in it.

The rough times Ruby's family faces, so many can relate to today. I sure could relate to the wealthy looking down their nose at the poor. But Lorenzo saw the inside of Ruby - status quo meant nothing.

Being raised poor, I could so relate to Ruby. I could also relate to Ruby being made fun of by the wealthy girl. I know what it is to work to help your family out. I started working when I was 16 to help with food, etc. at home.

'Lost Melody: A Novel,' by Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith

11/22/2011
Jane Squires
Prophecy, tragedy and romance plus more

Lost Melody is an uplifting story to me. The struggles a person faces in obeying God are not easy. The world shuns the warnings Jill feels led to give to the town.

Jill King survived a subway accident with Robert, an angel with her all the way until she was rescued. Later he appears to her again. I can relate to angels being there for you in an accident. My daughter and I turned upside down in our car in 2003 and angel wings wrapped around both of us.

'Tall, Dark and Cajun' by Sandra Hill

11/18/2011
Jane Squires

If you cannot handle Song of Solomon, then this book is not for you. If you can, you are in for an adventure.

A book so hard to lay down. First, Rachel burns her 5 year live-in doctor's exercise stuff, etc. Anyone who cannot accept you for who you are, doesn't really love you.

So Rachel heads to Louisiana to meet her grandmother she never knew existed. From the big city to Cajun Country is definitely shell shock. Yet Rachel learns so many lessons, you are gripped by the setting and descriptions.

'The Last Time They Met' by Anita Shreve

11/12/2011
Jacklyn Rose Morrison
One True Love Can Leave A Mark On Your Soul Forever

The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve is a complicated and deeply moving rendition of lost and found love. When a 17-year-old poet in Boston named Thomas Jane meets his equal in an orphaned girl named Linda he is in love for life. The teenagers are quickly drawn into an epic romance that defines their lives.

Thomas and Linda meet again in Kenya when they are both 26 and married to others. The reunion brings up memories of the car accident that separated them. Their renewed affair once again results in tragedy.

Always Something There To Remind Me

11/12/2011
Jacklyn Rose Morrison
An Endless Tale Of Teenage Angst Well Into Adulthood

Always Something There To Remind Me by Beth Harbison is another chicklit tale of lost love recovered. While the story starts out so promising the novel reads like an endless repeat of a teenage girl’s diary. Unfortunately, the grown woman version of the main character doesn’t sound much different from her lovesick teen self.

'The Last Letter From Your Lover' by Jojo Moyes

11/12/2011
Jacklyn Rose Morrison
A new classic that makes you appreciate the art of writing instead of email

The Last Letter From Your Lover is a double love story set four decades apart in London that promises to be an instant classic. The first part of the story begins in the early 1960s when a 26-year-old English society wife named Jennifer Stirling falls into a coma after a car accident. After she awakens in a London hospital with amnesia, Jennifer Stirling must piece together who she is and what her life was. Over the next several months Jennifer spends her days having society lunches and dinners while trying to recapture her memories.

Making Waves by Lorna Seilstad

11/1/2011
Jane Squires
Following your heart

I always love a book that holds your interest from beginning to end. This is one of those books. You cannot lay it down.

Marguerite Westling shows us how we sometimes love others so much, we lie to ourselves and make excuses instead of following after truth. Love of family can sometimes keep one from doing what they know to be right.

Roger Gordon had to control every situation to get what he wanted. In the end it led to his ruin.

Secrets don't stay buried. They usually always come to the light. But being truthful all the time isn't easy either.

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