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Summary: Welcome to Buffalo Valley!
Review: Lindsay Snyder's is new in this dying town where her family was once rooted. But Lindsay's arrival signals a breath of life, not just for the town, but for Gage Sinclair. As the two reconstruct a mystery that connects their families, they find they've connected even more . . . they've connected their hearts. But learning to accept each other's differences might just prove too much, unless they can learn that differences are sometimes strengths, not the downfall of a relationship.This book is the beginning of a Dakota saga. It is more than just Lindsay and Gage's story, but the beginning of Buffalo Valley's story. From Buffalo Bob, the biker owner of the bar/hotel, and his on-again-off-again relationship with his Buffalo Gal, Merrily -- to Rachel, a pizza making widow and Heath, the local banker -- to divorced Sarah and younger man, Dennis -- to Joannie and Brandon, a couple who loves each other, but whose love might not be enough -- to Hassie Knight, the local pharmacist/soda fountain owner who's old style wisdom is sought by everyone -- Debbie Macomber has crafted a real community whose inhabitants will become real to you. A wonderful story of home and heart by one of my favorite authors!
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Summary: Wonderful Series
Review: Really got you into this small town and you didn't want the series to end! Great group of books!
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Summary: Wonderful Series
Review: Really got you into this small town and you didn't want the series to end! Great group of books!
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Summary: Dakota Bore
Review: Supposedly a contempory novel reflecting life in eastern North Dakota, it felt more like a revival of State Fair without the music. This story could have been set anywhere. Throwing in a few weather or crop details didn't cut it. Having grown up on the Minnesota side of the border near Grand Forks, it was major disappointment. And the characters are as flat as the countryside. There is little in this book that captures the people or the area: no ethnic traditions or food on holidays (jello doesn't count); few names that reflect the ethnic heritage of the area (Heath Quantrill belongs on a plantation not the Red River Valley); no regional phrases or speech patterns; no grasshoppers or mosquitos; no grain elevator in town; no mention of the flood which ravaged Grand Forks while Heath stares down at the "majestic Red River",(which is only majestic when it's overflowing its banks). And to the people who live there, North and South Dakota are separate and distinct, they haven't refer to them as the Dakotas since statehood. You're more likely to see a wood stove than a brick fireplace in an old house and people drink pop, oops soda, rather than icecream sodas. The minute Lindsey showed up in Buffalo Valley with a car so clean people commented on it, it was over. Where were all the dead bugs on the windshield. The portrayal of the farm wife who seems to do little but garden and knit, even in the heat of summer, was too much. Leta apparently doesn't even drive and is so poor she needs to barter eggs, which she carries to town in the basket, in exchange for a haircut for Gage. Give me a break. He farms over 2000 acres of crop land, apparently all by himself. And if that land is in the Red River Valley, he isn't starving. He can afford a haircut, and something better than a 17 year old pickup. Leta can't be more than 57 years old and she acts like she's in her 80's. There's more, but it would take too long. If I had known Mira was an imprint of Harlequin, it might have changed my expectations, but not the evaluation.
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Summary: A wonderful romantik book!
Review: This a lovely read. You get introduced with Lindsay at a turning point of her life. She is fed up with her boyfriend Monte, a deforcie, who cannot or doesn't want to commit himself to her. Three years of her life she invested in this relationship now it is on her to act. Knowing she has to move on, not only literally, she is searching for a new beginning, a purpose in her life. Going back to the roots of her family, to Buffallo Valley, we are introduced with a lovely mix of characters, living in this little town, which is hovering sharp on the edge of desertion. This a book about investing in your life, your ideas, your environment and in your friends. It is about learning from your families past and love. It is the first book of beginning saga and I can not wait for the next.
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Summary: Dakota Born
Review: This book was heart warming, makes you wish you were born in such a town where everyone knows everyone. The only flaw with this book was when things in one couples life gets getting good they moved on to another couples problems just like in soap operas. But the characters we great, I can't wait for the next book in the series!
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Summary: New Reader Enjoys Debbie Macomber
Review: This is my first book by Debbie Macomber. She had been recommended to me in a bookstore but I had never purchased any of her books. Dakota Born was an easy read for me. I enjoyed reading about the small town in North Dakota and getting a flavor of the townspeople. I liked the fact that the relationships were realistic and romance was definitely alive but sex wasn't what held the relationships together nor were sexual situations graphically detailed. There were several plots that could be developed for the other books in the trilogy. I look forward to reading them and more from Debbie Macomber!
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