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The Twelve Days of Christmas: Birds Galore

The Partridge by Kit Morgan

The Dove by Shanna Hatfield

The Hens by Merry Farmer

The Calling Birds by Jacqui Nelson

June 21, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Sometimes you’re just in the mood for plain and simple mail order bride romances. Lots of them. The Partridge (Kit Morgan) – 3 stars Reverend Chase Hammond, determined to save the town of Noelle, sends away for mail order brides to prove that the town can be a true civilized community. Of course, when the women actually arrive, things don’t run smoothly according to plan. This is the first book in the series, so a lot of the story involves legwork setting up the scenario […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Western Tagged With: historical romance, Jacqui Nelson, Kit Morgan, mail order bride, Merry Farmer, Romance, Series, Shanna Hatfield, western

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:88 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Western · Tags: historical romance, Jacqui Nelson, Kit Morgan, mail order bride, Merry Farmer, Romance, Series, Shanna Hatfield, western ·
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“No one had ever held my hand before. Somehow people in Texoma always needed their hands free. I found it a little hot, a little sweaty, and since we were yoked we had to match our pace. But it made me feel good.”

A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose #2) by Charlaine Harris

February 10, 2022 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

Charlaine Harris (she of the Tru Blood series) knows how to write a breezy entertaining romp, not quite a “can’t put down” page-turner, but a book you are happy to go back into in a world that has interesting magical elements. Her characters can be a bit wooden and two-dimensional, but synonyms for that could be familiar and comforting. Her writing is straightforward and easy to read, with violence and a bit of sexy sprinkled throughout, the type of book that I would qualify as […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Western Tagged With: Charlaine Harris, Gunnie Rose series, magic, western

ardaigle's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Western · Tags: Charlaine Harris, Gunnie Rose series, magic, western ·
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The cowboys are Librarians who work with more than books

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

January 4, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Upright Women Wanted has a really interesting set-up: take your standard Western setting, and instead of cowboys, substitute a group of women called Librarians, whose supposed job is to delivery Approved Materials for reading and pick up the old or worn out materials for fixing up. Esther wants to join the Librarians to get away from her past and she stows away in a Librarian wagon. Obviously she gets caught and reaches a tentative agreement with the Head Librarian Bet about apprenticing. The novella follows […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Western Tagged With: coming-of-age, feminist, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, novella, Sarah Gailey, upright women wanted, western

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Western · Tags: coming-of-age, feminist, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, novella, Sarah Gailey, upright women wanted, western ·
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The old west gets fenced in

The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurtry

December 28, 2021 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

This slight and swift-moving novella follows Wyatt Earp and his best bud, Doc Holliday, around an increasingly settled west. In addition to these two main characters, who do little but gamble, drink and very occasionally get into some gunplay, we meet Wyatt’s wife, Jessie, a rancher, Charlie Goodnight, a madam, San Saba, and an intrepid lady reporter, Nellie Courtwright. Several of the other Earp brothers are mentioned but exist mostly off-screen, as impetus for the plot (Virgil become sheriff, Morgan opening a new saloon). McMurtry’s […]

Filed Under: Western Tagged With: Larry McMurtry, the last kind words saloon, western

Wanderlustful's CBR13 Review No:48 · Genres: Western · Tags: Larry McMurtry, the last kind words saloon, western ·
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“And so I began my criminal career there in the house of God, with a leaky pen instead of a pistol and books instead of silver for my reward.”

Outlawed by Anna North

July 5, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I still don’t know how I feel about this one and it’s been over a month. It was a super fast read, read it only about three hours, and parts of it I really liked, I guess overall I just wasn’t in the mood for a story that wasn’t all HEAs all over the place. Or that at least didn’t kill the one character I liked the most. Thanks for that, by the way. Outlawed is an alternate history western set in 1894-5, in a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: alt-history, alternate history, Anna North, Fiction, LGBTQIA, narfna, outlawed, western

narfna's CBR13 Review No:76 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: alt-history, alternate history, Anna North, Fiction, LGBTQIA, narfna, outlawed, western ·
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Damn the Man

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

February 2, 2021 by Debcapsfan 1 Comment

I listened to Sarah Gailey’s Magic for Liars last year and enjoyed it, but this was even better. Upright Women Wanted is set in a Wild West style world from the future, where a continuous war has torn the country apart and men dominate society. Information, the tool we use to grow and learn and resist, is tightly controlled with approved materials from the Librarians. The goal for this society is to keep people uneducated and very carefully educated. At the start of the story, […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Western Tagged With: #Science Fiction, queer, Sarah Gailey, western

Debcapsfan's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Western · Tags: #Science Fiction, queer, Sarah Gailey, western ·
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