B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsBlackmail / Contemporary / domestic violence / police / policeman / security / West Virginia7 Comments
Ramsey Masters is the Ridge Outlet Theft Prevention Specialist, that is, she spends her days stopping shoplifters. While catching someone stuffing a PS4 controller into their pants or a ham into their handbag is more amusing than it is dangerous, the type of work isn’t what drew Ramsey to the ... more >
Book Reviews / C- Reviewsclass differences / Contemporary / dogs / Romance / snowboarder / veterinarian / West Virginia5 Comments
Dear Readers, Kathleen Gilles Seidel was once one of my favorite romance authors. After a long hiatus, she returned to the romance genre last year with Stand Tall, a trilogy about three Olympic snowboarders who are friends. I liked the first book in the series, The Fourth Summer, not so ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / dysfunctional family / family relationships / fish-out-of-water / Hillwilla series / older woman / West Virginia / Womens-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: On the Hillwilla Road by Melanie Forde
This follow-up novel to Hillwilla explores how disparate characters can grow to need and depend on one another In Hillwilla, Beatrice Desmond, a former Bostonian Ivy Leaguer, found herself in midlife on a llama farm in remote West Virginia. Clara Buckhalter, a troubled young girl, drew Beatrice out of her ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsdysfunctional family / family relationships / fish-out-of-water / Hillwilla series / older woman / West Virginia / Womens-Fiction3 Comments
Beatrice Desmond, 55, lives on a remote farm nestled in a deep hollow in southern West Virginia. Her troubled past–an alcoholic father, growing up borderline poor, a suicidal husband–along with her loyalty to a deceased friend, drove her to this lonely existence. She soldiers on, accompanied by her wry sense ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1930s / 19th century / American historical / dual-timeline / Historical / lawyer / law related / murder-investigation / Race / West Virginia6 Comments
Lakin, West Virginia, 1930 Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P. D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Boozer is eager to try the new talking cure for insanity, and encourages his elderly ... more >
C- ReviewsContemporary / paramilitary / police / romantic-suspense / Small Town Romance / West Virginia25 Comments
Dear Ms. Howard, Once upon a time, I was an avid reader of your novels. From the categories, which I discovered deep in the bowels of my university’s library, to the single title romantic suspense novels, which I purchased for years. Around about the early 2000s, that started to change ... more >