Lori Foster Buckhorn reissues
Lori Foster is an Ohio author who is relatively well-known and is pretty prolific. I think I've read almost all of her stories and she's hit and miss for me. Some are great, some are ok and some suck. Some of her older books are out of print and go for lots of money on various commercial sites. I guess to keep up with demand, she or her publisher are reissuing some older books, including the Buckhorn brothers series. This was written very early in her career (I hope). Her stories now are longer, more complex and generally more well-written. Not that these are bad. They're just simple and early.
These are about 4 brothers and a son who live in a small Kentucky town and are employed as follows: Doctor, Sheriff, Carpenter, Veternarian. There is a complicated backstory with two brothers with the same father and the other two with two different fathers and STILL manages to make the mother a saint instead of a slut. Even Sawyer's son isn't really his son, just the love child of his ex-wife and another nameless man. Backstories are good, except that these books are very simple. Maybe it adds extra interest. Explaining it in every book certainly takes up more space. I liked the books ok, they're just simple little romance stories. The phraseology and dialogue is hackneyed, though, even for country boys. I don't want to drag them back out, but "sure as certain," and other phrases really got on my nerves. Foster must have rethought it too, because the next series she set in Kentucky, no one spoke like that. One of the characters even used the term ignominious position, when turned over her lover's knee. I know authors don't want to mess with their earlier work, but there should be some leeway. If they're going to be reissued, the author should go back and fix some things, like in editions of a textbook. I would.
And their names are their book titles.
Sawyer: Sawyer is the doctor. Honey runs her car into their pond. She is running from an ex-fiancee and is sick. And Sawyer had never had a reaction like his reaction to her. The chemistry is hot and I like both characters ok. He goes out of character too much for me. The ending and whole atmosphere is just too good to be believed, aw shucks we're all one big happy family thing. Which continues into the next book:
Morgan, about the sheriff, who is lusting after Honey's sister who turns out to be pregnant by a man who ran away. She also has some legal troubles. The characters were ok. Their relationship was ok. There was very little conflict or outside interference, much like real life, but hardly ever like a romance novel. Simple.
These are about 4 brothers and a son who live in a small Kentucky town and are employed as follows: Doctor, Sheriff, Carpenter, Veternarian. There is a complicated backstory with two brothers with the same father and the other two with two different fathers and STILL manages to make the mother a saint instead of a slut. Even Sawyer's son isn't really his son, just the love child of his ex-wife and another nameless man. Backstories are good, except that these books are very simple. Maybe it adds extra interest. Explaining it in every book certainly takes up more space. I liked the books ok, they're just simple little romance stories. The phraseology and dialogue is hackneyed, though, even for country boys. I don't want to drag them back out, but "sure as certain," and other phrases really got on my nerves. Foster must have rethought it too, because the next series she set in Kentucky, no one spoke like that. One of the characters even used the term ignominious position, when turned over her lover's knee. I know authors don't want to mess with their earlier work, but there should be some leeway. If they're going to be reissued, the author should go back and fix some things, like in editions of a textbook. I would.
And their names are their book titles.
Sawyer: Sawyer is the doctor. Honey runs her car into their pond. She is running from an ex-fiancee and is sick. And Sawyer had never had a reaction like his reaction to her. The chemistry is hot and I like both characters ok. He goes out of character too much for me. The ending and whole atmosphere is just too good to be believed, aw shucks we're all one big happy family thing. Which continues into the next book:
Morgan, about the sheriff, who is lusting after Honey's sister who turns out to be pregnant by a man who ran away. She also has some legal troubles. The characters were ok. Their relationship was ok. There was very little conflict or outside interference, much like real life, but hardly ever like a romance novel. Simple.