Do You like author Marcia Lynn McClure?
I just finished reading,The Highman of Tanglewood, and enjoyed it very much. I copyed the Pumpkin Pie recipe off. Will try it for Thanksgiving.
—Oma Jones
This was a quick and fun read, and I read it when I was sick and needed something not too complicated or long. It was a 3.5 for me but rounding it down as it just did not come up to a four star for me. It is the story of a young chambermaid in some past century – some time after Robin Hood beca...
Rating: 5 stars.I absolutely loved this story! It was my first time reading a MLM western, so I was not sure if I would enjoy it, but I found it so-o-o entertaining. I found myself smiling with pleasure whilst reading this book. I also enjoyed the fact that there were three love stories going on...
Great light read. Broderick is ever a gentleman and a strong warrior. He is a great match for the Scarlet Princess, Monet. While there is war on the horizon King Dacian sends Broderick on a mission to protect Monet while they are in exile via secretly marrying Broderick and Monet.....They find a ...
A rather interesting take on the Beauty and the Beast fairytale - the 'beast' this time wasn't some horrible physical disfigurement, but rather a psychological one, where emotional scars had rendered the hero cold and seemingly uncaring. Admittedly he was really lacking in self-awareness and his ...
3.5 stars. It was a cute, fluff read. I gotta say that the age difference bothered me a bit (She is almost 19 and he's 30). And why didn't she fall for Tom? He was so nice! Why the ornery one? Although it worked out and he wasn't so ornery after all. It was a nice happily, ever after. I admit to ...
This book starts a series of shorter but fun romances...so far (I have only read the first 2) seem to involve the McCall boys. I really did enjoy the idea of this story....the idea of someone needing a protector and being lost is always a premise I can get lost in. And when the female lead has am...
You know, I hardly EVER give a book one star. But this book...*sigh* where do I start?First off, I'm not against light reads. I read my share of them and most of the time find them enjoyable. But there's light and there's light. This is dandelion fluff light. So light that the plot seems to have ...
I loved this book and how it was a nice twist on Snow White, but I just couldn't love the heroine. I adored A Crimson Frost (a prequel to this story in terms of lineage) and was excited to read this....but it just didn't do it for me. everything besides the heroine was wonderful (nice kisses from...
This book was fast, fun and kept me smiling (until the wee hours of the morning)! Super cute story about Poppy and Swaggart. I could envision a fun, hometown setting for Good 'ol Days. I liked the characters & enjoyed that the other love interest didn't turn out to be a jerk, or psycho; he just w...
I love the cover. The cover is awesome.Story? Well, not that much.I mean the book is not that bad, but it had so much potential. The lead characters were good and could get even better, but that just didn't happened plus the secret of the hood is just funny.Give or take, this book was well three ...
Can I give more than 5 stars? I absolutely loved this book. What a wonderful story and the characters were so precious. Gina was the funniest thing I've read about in a long time. She so much reminds me of me. Aspen was just so sweet, independent, yet so soft. The incident with Apen and the spide...
What can I say....the Queen of clean has done it again!!!! Thank you Marcia for ANOTHER favorite! I absolutely ADORED this book!! I've been saving it for about a year:) I have to read 50 books or so and then I treat myself to a Marcia Lyn...(NOBODY writes kissing like she does. NO ONE!!!!)...I'm ...
This was a good easy read. It wasn't my favorite MLM book, but it was still enjoyable and had me glued to it nonetheless. I think that as i've started writing, I've become more of a critical reader and have less patience when a book rambles a bit. It just seemed to say the same things in differen...
BEST. MARCIA. HEROINE. EVER! I love, love, love Cherry Ray. I grew up on a ranch with a daddy who taught me to shoot like the boys and ride a horse like a cowboy, so I love that Cherry uses her skills (and a little sugar!) to capture Lobo's heart. I couldn't help but grin and cheer when Cherry...
I was curious to see how Ms. McClure adopted her writing style to contemporaries- and I found her work as delightful as always. The heroes are a little less intense and a little more flirtatious, the banter is rousing and hilarious..Just the one issue I had was that it was a bit..anticlimatic. Th...
“Tide of the Mermaid Tears” was highly recommended to me by a bookstore clerk. She said if I like ---, then I would probably like Marcia Lynn McClure also. I chose, I read (pretty quickly), and I’m still trying to decide if I can give “Tide…” more than 3 1/2 stars. There were parts I really liked...
This book was the perfect escape from all of the sadness that is going on in the world. It is so refreshing to open a book and be taken back to a quieter time in life with pumpkin patches, county fairs, delicious recipes made with apples picked straight from the tree. Also, I just love all of t...
It is a wonderful story of change, and true love. Maxim is the Grandson of Elisaveta Tanner and is responsible for taking care of her, in her old age. She loves antiques and she loves the store where Sharlamagne Dickens works. It is the Dicken's families antique store where the family loves worki...
I just rereaed this for Swoon Fest, and I think I liked it even better my second time around. Take a Walk with Me really put me in the Christmas mood. I was playing my Christmas music (and it's not even Halloween yet). It also gave me an idea of what to cook for dinner, meatloaf and mashed pot...
4 StarsThe Chimney Sweep Charm had me wishing it was Christmas and that I was with everyone in the Dickens Village! It also had me wanting my own Chimney Sweep for Christmas! ;) When Baylee and Justice first meet each other it's at the Dickens Village where she is working as a hand-bell ringer an...
I am a huge McClure fan... her books are like a breath of fresh air. I never have to worry about being surprised by R rated scenes the way that I am occasionally in other popular books I've read. She draws me in right away with a captivating story and interesting characters. And then there are...
In all fairness, the insane villain is probably hard to do well. Even a bigger challenge is when the author wraps up the climax of the story by exposing a murdering schizophrenic girl and having her shoot people and then not be killed (of course) but knocked unconscious all in about TWO PAGES. ...
Marcia you are an amazing story teller! I love that you get inspiration for your characters through your personal interactions and really appreciate your author's notes at the end. I forget that even authors as wonderful as you have down in the dump days like the rest of us. I'm super grateful th...
Loved. Loved. Loved.After reading the book, one of McClure's snippets noted it was one of her least favorite books that she's written. Well, it quickly became one of my favorites. Like many of McClure's books, this one ended up on my favorites shelf.I just loved the quick wit and humor that Garet...
Tierney is engaged to the wrong man, and her brother sends her an interesting bridal shower gift to further sway her to sever the engagement; One Classic Latin Lover! He's just like the one she's pined for from all the old romantic musicals she adores. This is the story of Tierney and Rome, who h...
3.5 stars. This was a fun, quick read. I'm always a sucker for marriage of convenience stories, so that made this an enjoyable read. I was also happy that this wasn't as much of an instalove story as some of MLM's other books. But I still would have loved to watch them fall in love a little more-...
I knew it was a conflict free book going into it, otherwise I probably would be giving it 2 stars. I like to have more twists and turns and conflicts going on. At least it was short! If it went on and on in the way it was, I couldn't have finished it, and yet, it was under developed being so shor...
He was the only man she had ever dreamed of belonging to...the only man she had ever wanted.Maria Castillo Holt...the only daughter of a valiant Lord and his Spanish beauty. Following the tragic deaths of her parents, Maria would find herself spirited away by conniving kindred in an endurance of ...
Genieva Bankmans had willfully agreed to the arrangement. She had given her word and she would not dishonor it. But when she saw, for the first time, the man whose advertisement she had answered…she was desperately intimidated. The handsome and commanding Brevan McLean was not what she had expect...
Youthful beauty, naive innocence, a romantic imagination thirsting for adventure-an apt description of Vaden Valmont, who would soon find the adventure and mystery she had always longed to experience-in the form of a man. A somber recluse, Ransom Lake descended from his solitary concealment in t...
Cassidy Shea's life was nothing if not serene. Loving parents and a doting brother provided happiness and innocent hope as life's experience. Yes-life was blissful at Cassidy's beloved home, Terrill. Still, for all Terrill's beauty and tranquility, ever there was something intangible and evasive ...
No. At the thought of his leaving! She wanted to reach out and throw her arms around him, beg him not to go, beg him to take her with him. To never leave her side again! How could it all have come to this so quickly? she thought. It seemed like only hours ago that she was on her way home from New...
Rivers forced her heavy eyelids to open. The voices had pulled her from a heavy sleep. She looked up just as the doors above her were unlatched and light streamed into the cellar. There, peering down into the darkness, were Weston and Jolee. “Oh! My goodness!” Jolee exclai...
The sun was setting, casting orange and yellow pillars across the sky, causing the clouds to appear as dark, ominous shadows of foreboding. Cristabel surmised it had been near an hour since she had left Claire Navarrone—since she had fled in search of isolated mourning. Sh...
As the days and weeks passed, the intimate moment she had shared with Trader at the fence repeated itself in her dreams, both waking and sleeping—all of which she thought she could cherish, all of which she thought would carry her through. But she had come to the realization she had fooled hersel...
Boston explained. “It’s as simple as that! You cannot believe how relieved I was to get home and find her note.” Boston frowned, thoughtful. “When’s the last time she missed a Friday night soiree?” “Like, never,” Danielle said. “It’s all my fault, y...
Nimrod growled. “Money? A property deed? Jewels? Whatever it was she gifted you, it does not belong to you! It belongs to we Fletchers!” Briney couldn’t draw breath, and the sensation was terrifying! She couldn’t move to defend herself. She was at Nimrod’s mercy! “You signed a legal document forf...
I just finished reading,The Highman of Tanglewood, and enjoyed it very much. I copyed the Pumpkin Pie recipe off. Will try it for Thanksgiving.
—Oma Jones