Do the rest of you ever feel like many of your favorite authors are midlist and even rather obscure authors that no one else ever talks about? I do and one of them for me is Donna Fletcher. I believe she has books out with both Zebra and Avon. (Are they lines from the same publisher? I can’t remember. And yes, I do admit to loving many of Avon’s books and I’m not ashamed of it either. ;p) Anyway, I have most if not all of her backlist I think. Not quite sure about that but it’s close. They’re not my favorites but they are definitely comfortable reads for the most part, even the older ones with the quite, ahem, interesting covers.

Recently, I was looking around for something to read and settled on one of her more recent ones, The Irish Devil. I love this one although I’m still puzzled over why the heroine is so shamed because she has a scar from surviving an attack. It doesn’t really make sense to me on many levels but that’s another discussion.

After that one, I skipped to rereading possibly my top favorite of her books, Tame My Wild Touch. Yes, the original cover is as wild as the title but not as bad as it could’ve been either. At least there are no long flowing locks on the hero. The story in this one, though, is a wonderful slow developing relationship between two extreme opposites and a bit of an ugly duckling tale as the heroine finds her true home in both the hero and the American West. Yes, it’s a western which I rarely read or like.

Currently, I’m rereading The Daring Twin, the first of two stories about identical twin sisters that’s a fascinating look at how two people so alike can still be so different and want completely different things from life.

I think one of the things that appeals to me about Fletcher’s stories is that she doesn’t always do the expected with both plots and characters. She has a tendency to take what would normally be stereotypical romance characters then put them in situations where they act against that type, convincingly, and usually with a high degree of humor, which is a big plus for me. Sort of a combination of vintage Krentz and Garwood.

4 Comments

  1. If I remember correctly, it’s one of the few that I’ve, uh, analyzed in-depth here. Well, sort of. ;p So check that post out and tell me what you think.

  2. OK, now I have to check that book out. Mehehe.

  3. Yeah, I feel that way about Merline Lovelace’s The Captain’s Woman. I swear no one else has read that book or they’d be raving about it too. 😀

  4. Do the rest of you ever feel like many of your favorite authors are midlist and even rather obscure authors that no one else ever talks about?

    Not so much with authors as with books. I love Anne Stuart‘s A Rose at Midnight and I think it’s her best ever yet almost everyone I talk to has never even heard of it. LOL.

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