A Review Category / A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildren / enemies to lovers / farming / Historical / Late Victorian / reformed hero / widow10 Comments
Dear Ms. Kleypas, Devil’s Daughter begins with Phoebe, Lady Clare (daughter of Sebastian and Evie from Devil in Winter) on her way to her brother Gabriel’s wedding. Phoebe is widowed and the mother of two young boys. Phoebe’s late husband, Henry, was her childhood best friend, and frail. Phoebe loved ... more >
B Reviews Category / Book Reviewscontemporary m/m romance / cows / farming / novella8 Comments
Luke Lafontaine survived the past year by not thinking about the father he lost, the dairy farm he couldn’t save from bankruptcy, or his way of life that vanished with the rap of an auctioneer’s hammer. Cleaning up city folks’ trash at the Minnesota State Fair is just another dead-end ... more >
Publishing Newscareer romances / dogs and cats / economic development / farming / giveaways / Goodreads / labor / research9 Comments
In Praise of the ‘Career Romance’ – A great tribute to Romance novels of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s that highlighted women in different career paths, from private secretary to actress to architect to copywriter. That they were often written to provide an educational theme does not necessarily eclipse their ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews20th century / family relationships / farming / Historical / Post WWII / retired military / Scotland1 Comments
After spending time combatting terrorists in Malaya, James Dering returns to Scotland. He starts a new life at Mureth House, the home of his aunt and uncle, Mamie and Jock Johnstone, where he hopes to learn to be a farmer. But he soon learns that picking up farming isn’t an ... more >
Publishing Newsentertainment journalism / farming / fiction sales / Game of Thrones / George R.R. Martin / television adaptation / UK book market4 Comments
Fear not, the novel is not history – Literary agent Ian Mulcahy responds to the recent Telegraph article that laments an apparent drop in UK fiction sales and notes that books are competing with other forms of entertainment for people’s “limited leisure time.” Mulcahy argues that overall book sales trends show growth in sectors ... more >
Book ReviewsContemporary / farming / footballComments Off on REVIEW: First Step Forward by Liora Blake
Dear Liora Blake, First Step Forward is the first book in your new Grand Valley series. Even though it is not New Adult, it is written in the same kind of style, with alternating first person present tense chapters from each of the main characters’ point of view. I actually ... more >