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4 1/2 STARS
4.5/5.0“Desert Rose” is a delightful and charming read with bold charaters that easily draw readers into their story. Read full review in the 2019 April issue of InD'tale Magazine.
3.5 Stars. A fun story with a small town setting. Rose and Jonah have an immediate connection and it’s interesting to watch them through their journey to discover their love for each other. At times, I found Rose a bit too carefree with enjoying the attention of too many men. Even after wanting more of a relationship with Jonah, she tries to entice Lance. Rose and Jonah have secrets and when they reveal them to each other is where the story gets stronger and ups the emotion and tension. The addi...
Desert Rose by J Arlene CulinerI can always rely on J Arlene Culiner’s romances to help me wind down from a stressful day and soothe my troubled mind. I love when she brings out a new one. Her heroes turn me on and her heroines are always fascinating, intelligent, and totally believable. I have been able to identify with every single lady’s attitude to her lover, - and no less Rosie from desert Rose, whose business is not entirely above board, but she has a heart of gold, a secret past life and
J. Arlene Culiner novel Desert Rose starts with Rose Badger in her vintage store named Second Hand Rose. A good looking man, Jonah Livingstone, walks in and they are immediately attracted to each other. But Jonah is there to buy a birthday gift for the woman he lives with in Reno. After finding a gift and exchanging names, he promises to visit the store again and drives back to Reno.Rose was born in Blake’s Folly, a mostly abandoned Nevada old mining town that once thrived, but it now had only a...
What a wonderful story. I loved the depth of the characters, the quirky nature of the nearly abandoned town, and learning about fossils and rocks and desert creatures. But mostly I enjoyed the slow building romance between Rose and Jonah. It would have been so easy to lose sight of Rose's sensitive nature in her gregarious personality. The author did an amazing job making a woman who at first might appear to be shallow and flighty someone we'd all love to sit down and have a coffee with (as long...
Desert RoseRomance in Blake’s FollyJ. Arlene CulinerFire Star Press, Nov 2018152 pages, KindleContemporary Romance✭✭✭✭⭑Provided by AuthorThe cover is totally appropriate to the story, but I didn’t find it eye-catching or particularly attractive. The pieces didn’t seem to quite come together to form a whole.The story was great fun, complex, and straightforward at the same time. Girl meets boy and they fall in love. End of story. Well, not quite that simple, but there aren’t too many real problems...
Rose Badger owns a vintage clothing boutique in a small, scarcely populated town in the middle of the Nevada desert. She’s a natural flirt, so she’s befriended many of the local men, to the scorn of their wives. She doesn’t want love or permanence, and luckily for her, her admirers don’t want anything permanent with her either. All that changes when newcomer Jonah Livingstone walks into her store.Jonah has a doctorate in geology and is studying the fossils in the area. Though he has a woman in h...
4.5 Stars. Set in the high desert of Nevada, the town of Blake's Folly has seen better days, as have most of its residents - a rag-tag assembly of loners, independent misfits, and ne'er do wells. But looks can be deceiving, and, as the story unfolds, the town's citizens grow and blossom, especially the heroine, Rose Badger. At first, she seems a guarded woman, who keeps her past - and aspects of her present - close to the vest. Has she become mired in her small town world? Has she grown complace...
Reading Desert Rose was such a delight I didn't want the book to end. Rose Badger owns a vintage shop in Blake's Folly, a small town at the end of the world. She keeps her little secrets because the residents of the town are a noisy bunch. And to add some spice to her life. She never lacked male admirers and gladly accepted invites to dinners, drinks and such. However, none of them knocked the socks off her. Until one evening Johas Livingstone entered her shop. But he's a smart, educated man wit...
My review on Romancing-the-Book.com is below:Desert Rose took me a while to get into the story and when it seemed to get better for me it was already done. This is the first book in the Romance in Blake's Folly series and I hope I get drawn into the next book more quickly. The storytelling was often choppy and we were introduced to characters but they didn't go anywhere. There were definitely a lot of secrets to unravel and Rose held hers close to the vest.Rose owns Second Hand Rose, a vintage c...
Reviewed by JoAnneBook provided by the authorDesert Rose took me a while to get into the story and when it seemed to get better for me it was already done. This is the first book in the Romance in Blake's Folly series and I hope I get drawn into the next book more quickly. The storytelling was often choppy and we were introduced to characters but they didn't go anywhere. There were definitely a lot of secrets to unravel and Rose held hers close to the vest.Rose owns Second Hand Rose, a vint...
