Janis Reams HudsonReseñas

I loved this book about an ex con coming home after seven years in prison. I thought the emotions were genuine and the characters full and well rounded. The heroine was struggling to keep her farm afloat while her grandfather was in the hospital. The farm in question was the hero's family farm which had had to be sold after he went to prison and his mother was in a car accident. Now the hero has come back to his small hometown because his mother is in a nursing home here and he eventually wants to get his farm back.

There was POV from both the hero and the heroine. I loved feisty tough talking heroine and the quiet steady hero. Here the hero was not sent away for a crime he didn't commit but for manslaughter after a fight led to someone dying. He suffers a lot of guilt over it and feels unworthy of the heroine.

A totally sweet well written love story.

Just didn't appeal to me.

This had the potential for plenty of emotion and drama, however, every issue resolved too easily and falling in love happened so so quickly in circumstances that should have overflowed with reluctance.

Amy shows up on the doorstep of her deceased best friend’s husband to tell him how his wife died as a member of the national guard the previous year and she’s also there to deliver some Christmas gifts the wife prepped for their three daughters.

Riley and his daughters welcome Amy into their lives with open arms, which felt a little off to me, not one of the girls questioned this woman basically taking their mom’s place, and Riley had been in love with his wife since childhood, he hadn’t been with any other woman, I just felt like embarking on a new relationship should have been much more fraught and hesitant for him.

The only person who doesn’t welcome Amy is Riley’s caricature of a mother-in-law who has antiquated notions of femininity and unfortunately the friction between her and Amy is ironed out in a way that I found disappointing and contrary to the person Amy professed to be, and unfortunately, it underscored the overall feeling that Amy was squeezing herself into every aspect of her best friend’s old life.

I also could not get into the romance between Amy and Riley. I don’t know whether it was the chemistry feeling forced with so much emphasis on prolonged stares they share or the fact that they barely know each other before their “happily ever after” (for example, they go on exactly one date, and the Christmas gift Riley gives Amy, much like the resolution to Amy’s issues with the mother-in-law, doesn’t remotely jibe with the woman the author has described Amy as). There’s also the problem that Amy has moved to her best friend’s home town, taken a job with her best friend’s husband, bonded with the best friend’s kids and the best friend’s mom. Amy isn’t a stalker, it’s clear she’s genuine, yet there’s still something very uncomfortable in the way that she inserts herself into her deceased friend’s world.

I can’t help wondering if the book had explored who Amy is more, gone deeper with the story of her unstable childhood, gone deeper with how it felt to have survived that firefight while witnessing her best friend give up her life for her, gone deeper as far as her post military life is concerned, rather than her easily landing a job with Riley, show her struggling, show her trying to figure out what to do, so that maybe her immediately clinging to someone else’s family might have felt a bit more worthy of empathy rather than like she was violating the friend code.

Angela's family is moving from Memphis to Tuscan to start a new life. Matt was raised with the Apache and is working with them and the American government on a peace treaty. Matt and Angela cross paths due to some Apache idiocy. In order to keep the peace, Matt and Angela have to marry. It's supposed to be temporary, but feelings happen to get in the way.

The book started out OK, but Angela was just plain stupid throughout most of the story. I felt so sorry for Matt. She put that man through the ringer with her insecurities and jealousy and he still wanted her! He never gave her any reason to doubt him, but because of the nature of their marriage, I guess it made it hard for her to trust him. The last 50 or so pages of the book were hard to finish because I just wanted to ring her neck.

Sargeant Amy's best friend was killed in Iraq, and a year after the fact she comes to Tribute, Texas with Christmas packages from her friend for the widowed Dad and his three girls. They take to her…and she winds up marrying Dad.

Oh holy heck! Why can't every romance heroine be like Brianna?! Caring and motherly towards her siblings yeah, but dis girl ain't no damsel in distress!!! Within the first fourth of the book, she's already punched a guy in the nose twice and walked into the local jail and talked her guy out of prison. Talked!! And that tisn't all. Throughout the novel, she'll take a shotgun to gunmen, jump in front of speeding bullets to save loved ones, and ride to the rescue of her man. This is a heroine I can get behind 100% percent. She's not waiting around for rescue, she's doing the rescuing herself!

I've got to commend the author on the intensity of the emotion between Brianna and Wolf. It was almost electric, the intensity was so high. From their first meeting, these two individuals fill in needs the author person has so well. Brianna provides Wolf with a home and people he can come to love; Wolf provides a strong rock from which to launch her assaults from to defend her home. For a romance novel, strength of emotion between the hero and heroine is so important. Warrior's Song delivers!

I only wish maybe the plot had been a wee bit unique or had some elements to make is stand out beside the outstanding romance and heroine. But the framework for this story was pretty darn typical. Lone-ish girl defending her ranch from big, bad ranch dude. Lone drifter cowboy comes in and saves the day in some way. Romance ensues. Big showdown. Big shock relationship is revealed. Everyone lives happily ever after.

Despite a plot line that is eye-rolling, this romance was thoroughly enjoyable. It has a heroine I adored and the intense romance was drool-worthy. And at the end of the day, why are we reading romances? for the love and smut, not the plot line! So enjoy and indulge. You'll enjoy the read.

Carson Dulaney had traveled all the way across the states from Georgia to settle what was left of his family on his father's ranch. He thought things would go smoothly along the way, but didn't realize that the west was a lot more uncivilized than he had hoped for. In fact, had the civil war not been recently ended, he would have thought the fighting was still going on, only this time with indians and whites. And so he met Winter Fawn on a tragic happenstance. One that left him on the run and her gravely injured. They will travel perilously over the mountains of Colorado with his daughter and his sister, Winter Fawn's father and brother, trying to outrun the indians who would kill them. Winter Fawn will learn the ways of the white man and hold a secret deep down inside so that she will fit into this new life, but it will only alienate her from those she loves in the end.

Three stories about three women who experience a near-death experience and then have paranormal abilities afterwards. I really enjoyed this set of stories and plan to hunt up more stories by these authors after reading this.

Sharon Sala's story Penance, is the most solid of the three, Nicole Masters was shot and nearly died but she's survived, with a lot of side effects, she's dealing but it's hard, what's making it harder is the visions, visions she should follow if she wants to help people. Her neighbour Detective Dominic Tucci is also determined to help her deal with it.

After the Lightning by Janis Reams Hudson features Hailey Cameron who was struck by lightning and begins hearing the voice of the woman in a coma in her room whose son is missing, she has to help DA Aaron Trent find him.

Seeing Red by Debra Cowan features a firefighter, Cass Holister who almost died in fire and now sees fires before they happen, she teams up with Ben Wyrick to investigate the arson Interesting and well done

Good solid stories that I enjoyed, I've read a few stories by Sharon Sala but I want to read some more and some by the other two as well.