"Top Gun" Started It All

I have probably read all of Kim Vogel Sawyer's books, and she has earned her spot in my top five favorite historical romance authors. "Beneath a Prairie Moon" is Sawyer's most recent book, set to be released in March 2018, and it most defiitely did not disappoint. "Beneath a Prairie Moon" is set in Kansas in the fall of 1888. It follows a young woman, Abigail Grant, in her failed quest at being a mail order bride in her attempt to escape her past in Massachusettes. She heads to Kansas with her employer, after a seventh failed potential marriage match, to be an etiquette tutor to expectant grooms that have sent East for a mail order bride. It's a book about overcoming ones past, and not letting who your parents were define you. It's a book about finding love when you feel unloveable. The book is told from four characters point of views, and I am always partial to book like that, because you can pack way more detail into a book. The only downfal...

I am not a laugh out loud person when it comes to books, but while reading "Out of The Ordinary" that all changed. I had moments when my husband looked at me as if I was crazy to find anything that hilarious in a book, but the antics that the main male character, Harrison, got up to while trying to woo Gertrude, the main female character, were downright hilarious. I have not read any other books by Jen Turano and this is the second book in a series, though it can be read alone. "Out of The Ordinary" talks a lot about the characters in the previous book, and it makes me want to read it to see how their relationship came to be. Turano has a knack for making some very loveable characters and their were characters in this book, Edwina and Temperence, who I am hoping to see in future books to continue this series on. Their are definitely some serious topics in this book, but their is so much lighthearted humor mixed in that I would still consider it a very happy r...