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Posts Tagged ‘American-Civil-War’

REVIEW: Pinkerton’s Secret by Eric Lerner

By Jayne • Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Mr. Lerner,
Of course I’d heard of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. And I’d even read romance books that featured Pinkerton detective heroes and heroines before. But I didn’t know much about the real man behind the formation of one of the most famous American law enforcement businesses or of the cases he and his [...]



REVIEW: Satanta’s Woman by Cynthia Haseloff

By Jayne • Sep 21st, 2007 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms Haseloff,
Years ago I read the DIK review at AAR for this book. I was interested and purchased it. I read it and was blown away by it. I contacted you and you were gracious enough to email with me a little about this book and others you’d written. I’ve always meant to [...]



REVIEW: Beaudry’s Ghost by Carolan Ivey

By Jayne • Aug 18th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms Ivey,
I bought “Beaudry’s Ghost” a few years ago (when LTD Books was still in business) and have had it on my IPAQ for almost as long. I’ve got a long list of books TBR on that sucker. I needed something different to read and thought, “Ghost story. Not too many of those [...]



REVIEW: The Mail Order Bride by Diana Bold

By Jayne • Aug 4th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Bold,

I like arranged marriage/marriage of convenience type plots. Here’s a couple, forced to get married, who then have to find a way to love. And since westerns are also a favorite, the mail order bride plot is tailor made for me. When I did my review of Cobblestone Press, yours was the [...]



REVIEW: The Rebel (Men of Pride County Book III) by Rosalyn West

By Jayne • Jul 14th, 2007 • Category: Reviews

Dear Ms West,
Okay, here goes letter three in a rinse and repeat style. And I’ll add my standard teeth gnashing that Book Five never saw the light of day.
This is the third installment of West’s Men of Pride County series and differs from the first two in that most of it takes place [...]



REVIEW: The Outsider (Men of Pride County Book II) by Rosalyn West

By Jayne • Jun 12th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms West,
As promised, here’s my letter for book number two of your Men of Pride County series and it carries on wonderfully from the first one with just enough of the leads from book number one and other secondary characters but without them clogging up the scenery unnecessarily. I’m going to include some [...]



REVIEW: The Outcast (Men of Pride County Book I) by Rosalyn West

By Jayne • May 5th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms West,
I actually read this series a few years ago but with the Kentucky Derby coming up, I felt it was the perfect time to pull it out for a refresher. I’ve read tons of books set during the Civil War but precious few set during Reconstruction. This is about how the South [...]



REVIEW: An Affair of Honor by Pamela Cummings

By Jayne • Feb 12th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Mrs. Cummings,
I read your novel “My Rebel Belle” (TBH, I still cringe at that title) and quickly bought the rest of your published books. I had a feeling that “An Affair of Honor” might tie in with it and indeed it does, telling the story of the US Civil War from the Northern perspective. [...]



REVIEW: My Rebel Belle by Pamela Cummings

By Jayne • Apr 16th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Mrs. Cummings,
I had read a recommendation for your US Civil War novel, My Rebel Belle, but to be honest I was put off by the price being charged by Amber Quill Press ($7.00) combined with the paltry excerpt available at their site. I realize that neither of these issues are your fault but if [...]