Can ya help a sistah out?
Michelle Willingham confesses in the post below, she's never read a Linda Howard book!
Grrrrrl, you are in for a treat! Plus you made it way too easy for me to find a blog topic today. (ha!) And to prove just how lazy I am, I'm inviting everyone to post their favourite Linda Howard book(s) in the comments.
I'll start with 2 suggestions:
1. Heart of Fire. I think this is my all-time favourite of LH, *so far* (I've got a ton of her books in my tbr pile.
Heart of Fire takes place in the Amazon Jungle, which was a major plus right off the bat. It has a real Romancing the Stone/treasure hunt vibe. Love the hero, the setting is well done. Very pacey, and the love scenes--IIR, and I think I do-- Wooot! Hawt-tat-tat-tat!
Here's the review/blurb from Publisher's Weekly (as for the last bit, obviously the reviewer doesn't read romance. duh! But it does give you a sense of what I was talking about re Romancing the Stone. HoF is a really fun read!):
"Archeologist Jillian Sherwood attributes her lackluster professional reputation to the fact that her late father, also an archeologist, was notorious for his supposedly crackpot theories, such as one about a lost city in the heart of the Amazon jungle that was home to a band of Amazon women warriors. Equipped with a map from her father's papers, Jillian is determined to find the lost city, thereby salvaging her father's reputation and her own. She is accompanied on the two-month expedition by Rick, her half-brother, who still resents her being daddy's favorite; Steven Kates, an unprincipled crook who has money to fund the venture and plans to steal anything valuable that turns up; Ramon Dutra, a jungle-wise thug; and Ben Lewis, an experienced guide who is more macho than any human being needs to be. Unfortunately, the more intense their adventures, the less realistic they appear because the characters have charmed lives. A pirate attack, an encounter with a jaguar and a hazardous walk along the side of a mountain give Howard's ( The Touch of Fire ) romance an adventure-yarn feel, but since Jillian seems to be virtually indestructible and Ben, as her only possible love interest, is inevitably guaranteed survival, the book lacks real suspense"
2.
Bonus: 3. er, you can always try Sarah's Child. *g* People either love it or hate it. Believe it or not I think I'm in the former group, if for the simply fact that it got a very strong reaction from me. Too many 'meh' reads out there.
Grrrrrl, you are in for a treat! Plus you made it way too easy for me to find a blog topic today. (ha!) And to prove just how lazy I am, I'm inviting everyone to post their favourite Linda Howard book(s) in the comments.
I'll start with 2 suggestions:
1. Heart of Fire. I think this is my all-time favourite of LH, *so far* (I've got a ton of her books in my tbr pile.
Heart of Fire takes place in the Amazon Jungle, which was a major plus right off the bat. It has a real Romancing the Stone/treasure hunt vibe. Love the hero, the setting is well done. Very pacey, and the love scenes--IIR, and I think I do-- Wooot! Hawt-tat-tat-tat!
Here's the review/blurb from Publisher's Weekly (as for the last bit, obviously the reviewer doesn't read romance. duh! But it does give you a sense of what I was talking about re Romancing the Stone. HoF is a really fun read!):
"Archeologist Jillian Sherwood attributes her lackluster professional reputation to the fact that her late father, also an archeologist, was notorious for his supposedly crackpot theories, such as one about a lost city in the heart of the Amazon jungle that was home to a band of Amazon women warriors. Equipped with a map from her father's papers, Jillian is determined to find the lost city, thereby salvaging her father's reputation and her own. She is accompanied on the two-month expedition by Rick, her half-brother, who still resents her being daddy's favorite; Steven Kates, an unprincipled crook who has money to fund the venture and plans to steal anything valuable that turns up; Ramon Dutra, a jungle-wise thug; and Ben Lewis, an experienced guide who is more macho than any human being needs to be. Unfortunately, the more intense their adventures, the less realistic they appear because the characters have charmed lives. A pirate attack, an encounter with a jaguar and a hazardous walk along the side of a mountain give Howard's ( The Touch of Fire ) romance an adventure-yarn feel, but since Jillian seems to be virtually indestructible and Ben, as her only possible love interest, is inevitably guaranteed survival, the book lacks real suspense"
2.
Bonus: 3. er, you can always try Sarah's Child. *g* People either love it or hate it. Believe it or not I think I'm in the former group, if for the simply fact that it got a very strong reaction from me. Too many 'meh' reads out there.
