Moonbow in the Mist

Rating:
Summary: so-so
Review: I didn't really care for this book. I thought the story line sounded very good and the basic plot was. I found the writing to be jumbled in areas. It seemed to jump around and it was a bit hard to follow. I got bored very easily. I found it to be very funny in spots and I would have loved to have read more scenes with the two raccoons. I just didn't feel the characters were developed enough to hold my interest. I hate to say this but it was a real struggle to get through this book.

Rating:
Summary: fun to read pre Civil War romance
Review: In 1859 Tennessee, Naomi Romans leans over the edge of Blueberry Bluff to get a closer look at the hunk below with the yellow-green eyes. However, running to get a closer look, she bangs her head in an accident. The man she was checking out, Shaw Lawson comes to Naomi's aid, but her two raccoons, Skillet and Jug, seem poised to attack him if he gets too close. Still he manages to help her.

When she awakens in Shaw's arms she remembers nothing about the last two years of her life as Naomi. Instead she insists she is Prima Powell, heiress to a shipping company rather than the granddaughter of a mountain healer. Prima turns to Shaw for comfort as she struggles with the friends and family she has loved for the last couple of years. However, as Prima heals she wonders if she can trust this outsider who already owns her heart once he realizes she really is the missing heiress.

MOONBOW IN THE MIST is an entertaining historical romance that will excite fans of regional Americana tales. Prima and Shaw are a wonderful couple because they seem so displaced in Tennessee which adds to their struggles to resolve personal demons and other issues. However, this tale belongs to the grandmother of "Naomi" and two matchmaking, berry stealing raccoons, who effortlessly abduct the hearts of the audience. Dia Hunter has written a fun to read pre Civil War romance.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: fun to read pre Civil War romance
Review: In 1859 Tennessee, Naomi Romans leans over the edge of Blueberry Bluff to get a closer look at the hunk below with the yellow-green eyes. However, running to get a closer look, she bangs her head in an accident. The man she was checking out, Shaw Lawson comes to Naomi's aid, but her two raccoons, Skillet and Jug, seem poised to attack him if he gets too close. Still he manages to help her.

When she awakens in Shaw's arms she remembers nothing about the last two years of her life as Naomi. Instead she insists she is Prima Powell, heiress to a shipping company rather than the granddaughter of a mountain healer. Prima turns to Shaw for comfort as she struggles with the friends and family she has loved for the last couple of years. However, as Prima heals she wonders if she can trust this outsider who already owns her heart once he realizes she really is the missing heiress.

MOONBOW IN THE MIST is an entertaining historical romance that will excite fans of regional Americana tales. Prima and Shaw are a wonderful couple because they seem so displaced in Tennessee which adds to their struggles to resolve personal demons and other issues. However, this tale belongs to the grandmother of "Naomi" and two matchmaking, berry stealing raccoons, who effortlessly abduct the hearts of the audience. Dia Hunter has written a fun to read pre Civil War romance.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: A bit about the book.......
Review: Leaning out to peek at a flatboat poling up the Cumberland River, Naomi Romans falls flat on her face. Cradled in Shaw Larson's strong arms and staring up into the river peddler's pretty yellow-green eyes, Naomi finds everything changed ... even herself. The fall brought her memories back. She isn't Naomi; she is Prima Powell, the missing daughter of a New York millionaire. Bedeviled by a pair of matchmaking raccoons, befuddled by two years of lost memories, and bedazzled by Shaw's gentlest touch, Naomi is certain: She is the girl who went stumbling off so long before to find moonbows in the mist ... and now she's found something even better.