Shelter Bay is a lot like Virgin River. A small town where everyone knows everyone else's business and a lot of love is going around. Glass blower Claire Templeton moves her high school sophomore son from the stars of Hollywood to the backwaters of Oregon after her mother dies and Matt starts to ...
Would give 3.5 stars. Good sweet and predictable love story. Author added a little more to it and it was an enjoyable read. Liked the characters and the believable story line. Claire and her son move to Shelter Bay. Her son. Matt is a great basketball player and everyone hopes he will help the...
My wife suggested that I read this to see why she enjoyed them. And I did like this enough that I want to read the other ones in the series. Nice, light summer reading. The end wrapped things up a little too quickly, I thought. I felt like there was a lot of 'short-handing' going on. The author a...
13/11 - I'm enjoying On Lavender Lane more than the previous books in the series. The book, plot, writing, characters, location aren't any different from the other books of hers that I've read so I think it must be because I've lowered my expectations when it comes to the romance in JoAnn Ross' ...
This book was too much for me to get into. This Lucas guys tries courting Maddy (awesome name, by the way) right after her husband cheats on her and posts a sex tape on the Internet. He's so scumbaggy the way he thinks "She'll take a lot of work" to convince her to sleep with him, be romanced by ...
Looking back at my reviews, I think this is the first 5 star rating I've given one of JoAnn's books. I love all her writing, but One Summer just hit all my soft spots and made me laugh and cry...and get really hungry from all the cupcakes!Ex-Marine and photojournalist Gabriel St. James is just i...
This was a light, very sweet contemporary romance. I’ve really enjoyed the Shelter Bay series from the beginning and even if you have not started from the beginning, you can read this on its own; you’ll just want some character background by reading the others in the series.One Summer is the stor...