Customer Reviews

Born in a Small Town: The Glory Girl/Promise Me Picket Fences/Midnight Sons and Daughters (Midnight Sons #7) (Harlequin Superromance, No 936)

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I have reread Janice Kay Johnson's story Promise Me Picket Fences over and over again. It is worth the price of this collection. The other two stories have major problems as far as I'm concerned. But Picket Fences was complete with a too-die-for hero and an endearing heroine. I enjoyed the story as well as the romance. Buy Born in a Small Town today! Janice Kay Johnson's story is lovely and makes it all worthwhile.

I really enjoyed Debbie's Hard Luck, Alaska series, so I was really looking forward to this new one about Scott O'Halloran. But to be honest, I was disappointed. The book was not that good. The love story between Scott and Chrissy was just not that interesting. I liked hearing about what had happened to the other characters in Hard Luck, but the main plot just didn't turn out well. I think she gave into him much too easily. He barely had to work for her love. But that is my opinion. You might just want to read this book to find out about the other characters.

Debbie MacOmber's story was fine but not great. Basically, it was just an excuse to meet up with all those people from her previous books. Judith Bowen's story was also entertaining, although I disliked the theme of a heroine who disguised her appearance, then having a hero who fell for the disguise and couldn't figure out who she really was. But Janice Johnson's story definitely made up for the rest of the anthology. Her story sparkled with humor and romance. It's a must-read for all romance fans!!!

Debbie MacComber's short story was lacking compared to the rest of the Midnight Son's series. It was nice to hear what happened to the rest of our favorite characters from the other books (in fact it was more interesting than the Scott/Chrissie main plot). I didn't buy Scott's "troubled teenager" character at all because of who MacComber painted him to be in the earlier books. Scott would have talked things out with his family instead of internalizing and running away.

The other two stories were good reads especially Promise Me Picket Fences but I felt that the stories moved too quickly and didn't develop characters. For example, I would have liked to learn more about Angie and about Hannah's sister Emily (who sounds more interesting than Hannah herself).

I asked for this book for my birtday, because I had read the previous six books over the summer that proceeded the first story in this book. This story was a good follow up to those books. A quick read. I enjoy Debbie Macomber, and that is the only reason I got this book. I couldn't get "into" the other two stories, however, and moved on to better books!

I loved this book as most of Debbie Macomber's are high on my reading list. It had a very good story line. You won't want to put it down.

Midnight Sons and Daughters seemed like they just cut the story short. It felt like they got to the middle of the book (which was good up until that point)then decided to end the story. They spent too much time explaining the back story. I had not read the others in the series, therefore the info didn't mean much to me. However if I had read the other books, then I wouldn't have needed all the back story. It would have been better to have more of their story than to get into all of the back story about the other characters.
The Glory Girl was a decent read, but I wish there would have been more finality to the story.
Promise Me Picket Fences was definitely the best story in the book, good storyline and you didn't feel like the ending left you hanging about the outcome of the story.