Home on the Range Book Review

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Nick Stafford has been working on his family's ranch, trying to proove he is the "good son."  Despite a strong commitment to be a better husband, father and ranch manager than his father was, Nick has found himself a single father.  One of his daughters is having trouble in school and he has to think past his Stafford stuborness and do what is best for his girls.

Dr. Elsa Andreas has suffered her own tragedy.  One that caused her to abandon her family practice and hide in a dark corner of Gray's Glen.  Her sister, the school principal, convinced her to come out of hiding to help the Stafford girls.

Nick is smitten with Elsa, and she with he, but they both agree to put the girls first.  Can Nick put aside his stuborn side, or will Elsa's hidden secret keep them apart despite both of them wishing the best for the girls?

Home on the Range is the 2nd book in the Double S Ranch series.  (Books 1 and 3 follow the other two Stafford brothers.)  It is a Fictional Christian Romance.

Normally I don't read or enjoy romance novels, but I chose to read this one because of the cover art, of a little girl hanging on to her fathers leg.

Reading Home on the Range I was in love with the charactger of Dr. Elsa.  I loved her Hobbit hole in the woods.  I loved her eccentric parrot.  I loved how much she loved Nick's daughters.  Her fear and distrust in certain people felt right with me

This quote from another chacrater in the book stuck with me:

"We cannot blame God for the evils of people.  We are inclined to sin.  But if each of us maes her corner of the world as sweet and good as she can, she blesses many, unseen."

In a not entirley unexpeted twist, the girls mother shows up.  One that happened I kept expeting things to be done and said that never were.  I was happy that the book wasn't so predictible that I knew what would happen before it did.

If you like a light Romance with Christian undertones I would recommend you read Home on the Range. I enjoyed it enough to read it in a couple of days.  However I didn't enjoy it enough to be tempted to check out the other books in the series.  I guess its just not my genre.

If you are interested in checking it out, Home on the Range  is available in several formats on amazon, along with the rest of the series.


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I received my copy of Tell Me How This Ends Well for free from Blogging For Books. All opinions are my own.

DEAD(ish) By Naomi Kramer

DEAD(ish) by Naomi Kramer is a ghost story of sorts.  It is a short read, approximately only 46 pages if it were a print book.

What is DEAD(ish) About?

Imagine what it must be like to have your boyfriend murder you. Only, even though you are dead you can't move on because you are oddly obsessed with your mortal body, which is now missing. To make matters worse, your murder knows where the body is and he's not telling!

Linda is having that problem, but she thinks she has found a solution! She's going to torment her murderous (ex) boyfriend until he tells her where her body is!

Mike isn't spilling the beans though. Its not as if he MEANT to kill her. It was a pure accident and not HIS fault that she fell off of her own shoes when he slapped her!

Trent is caught between the living and the dead, and he's pretty sure that nobody is telling the truth which isn't making his job of finding Linda's body for her any easier.

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Linda is dead, and she can't move on until she's found her body.
Mike killed her, but he's not telling where he hid her body.
There is only one thing left to do. She's going to haunt him until he tells her what she needs to know.
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What Did I Think?

"Dead(ish)" was the very first book I read on my Kindle device. It is a short and fairly fast paced read, so I finished it in less than one day.

I'll start by saying there is a lot of talent to be seen in this work. I was reminded a bit of Christopher Moore's writing style.

Naomi Kramer did a fine job outlining a story here, but it does feel like its only an outline. It was good enough to keep me reading long enough to finish it instead of just moving on to my next title, but not quite good enough to make me want to immediately buy the next one.

The thing that bothered me most is that there was no character development at all. I didn't feel anything for Mike, Trent, Linda or any of them at all.

Secondly, the back story was hardly there at all. I'm still not 100% sure exactly what happened to Linda, and even though I know why, it was a very weak plot point.

There is also quite a lot of cursing and sexual content. (Which is no bother to me, but possibly a turn off for other readers.)

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(this review was originally published on Squidoo as nonersays, then moved to Hubpages as Noner, and now being re-posted here and removed from Hubpages)