SNOWFLAKES AND STETSONS by Jillian Hart, Carol Finch and Cheryl St. John is a historical anthology based on Western Christmas Wishes. Anthologies with a Christmas theme are my favorite books to buy for holiday reading because they’re easier to read in small snippets of time. That said, this review was written to meet our TBR…

WALKS THROUGH MIST by Kim Murphy was the perfect choice for the TBR Challenge by combining paranormal with suspense in a time travel back to the 1600s. I chose this book as it sounded mystical. It met my expectations, as well as journeyed back through time, adding in a contemporary and historical suspense featuring a…

The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson is very creative. I enjoyed reading the author’s postscript where he describes how this story began with an observation in a museum. The small page count encourages anyone to step outside their comfort zone and try something different. This is my TBR Challenge book from September. I read the…

FRONTIER WOMAN by Joan Johnston captured my reader’s soul with enthralling characters full of life, crushed it with the reality of history, and mended it with the sweetness of love that endures it all. I forgot how much I missed western historical romance written in the 1980s, until Wendy’s TBR Challenge 2016 for “Kicking it…

For this month’s TBR Challenge, I chose THE GUARDIAN by Margaret Mallory because it’s a series I’ve been collecting to read. Our theme this month in Wendy the Super Librarian’s TBR Challenge 2016 is an award winner or nominee. THE GUARDIAN was an OKRWA National Readers’ Choice award winner for Historical in 2011, and since…

O PIONEERS! by Willa Cather was my choice for “something different,” our theme this month in SuperWendy’s TBR Challenge 2016. I succeeded in finding a book that’s a different style, as well as a classic from 1913 that focuses on the history of the prairie pioneers of North America, as well as examples of historic…

WHEN I FIND HER by Kate Bridges, my SuperWendy TBR Challenge 2016 book this month, is a young adult contemporary romance with a twist. The twist is a bit of magic and time travel. I’ve been reading a bunch of contemporaries, so it was fun to come across one that has a completely different plot…

A historical western mail-order bride novel with a surprise twist, Promises Kept by Scarlett Dunn creates expectations for the rest of the series. Western historical fans will rejoice in a new series to follow, especially since the third book will release April 2016. TBR Challenge 2016 – Theme: Recommended Read (a book that was recommended…