Yankee Wife

Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Review: "Yankee Wife" is the first book in the "Quade" series followed by "Taming Charlotte" and "Princess Annie", I think they are wonderful.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Review: "Yankee Wife" is the first book in the "Quade" series followed by "Taming Charlotte" and "Princess Annie", I think they are wonderful.

Rating:
Summary: good enough
Review: I enjoyed this book but not enough to keep. I got a little bored with the characters separation. I didn't have trouble finishing it, but it certainly did not keep me up late reading.

Rating:
Summary: YANKEE WIFE
Review: I just finished this book and wished it was another 300 pages long. The different plots and twist were great. I'm from the area it was set in so I really enjoyed the location! Brigham & Lydia need a sequel showing the changes continuing in their town, their family, their friends. I have just ordered Taming Charlotte to appease my appetite for further reading of this family, and because Linda Lael Miller is also a favorite author of mine.

Rating:
Summary: YANKEE WIFE
Review: I just finished this book and wished it was another 300 pages long. The different plots and twist were great. I'm from the area it was set in so I really enjoyed the location! Brigham & Lydia need a sequel showing the changes continuing in their town, their family, their friends. I have just ordered Taming Charlotte to appease my appetite for further reading of this family, and because Linda Lael Miller is also a favorite author of mine.

Rating:
Summary: Light Diversion
Review: The concept behind this story appealed to me: a former civil war nurse stranded in California sees an ad for marriage to a stranger and thinks "why not?" However, I was a bit disappointed in the actual story. There was quite a number of subplots, which I usually don't mind. However, the story was too short to try and focus on any one subplot very much. Thus, it ended up simply skimming the sub-plots; they were not developed. I believe this book may have been better if it had focused more on the main plot of Lydia and Brigham instead of delving so much into the doctor's life, Polly and Devon, and even Charlotte (which I know was just setting up a sequel, but what did it have to do with this story?) All in all, it was a light read; I finished it in about 2 1/2 hours between classes (I am a communter student). Interesting, but not enough to make me want to keep the book or ever read it again.
This was my first Miller book, so I didn't know what to expect from her. What I've found here, I was not impressed with. I prefer books that focus more on the main characters and, if there are subplots, books that develop those subplots more fully.
However, I must say, if you are a Miller fan, you are bound to like this story, since my dislikes focus on the style of the author. My tastes generally run towards Julie Garwood, Jude Devereaux, or Judith McNaught.