To Mother with Love: "Way Home", "Backward Glance", "So This is Love" [Paperback]

Robyn Carr (Author), Cheryl Reavis (Author), Linda Howard (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Silhouette Books (February 12, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373586485
• ISBN-13: 978-0373586486
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,981,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Linda Howard is the award-winning author of many New York Times bestsellers, including Up Close and Dangerous, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cover of Night, Killing Time, To Die For, Kiss Me While I Sleep, Cry No More, and Dying to Please. She lives in Alabama with her husband and two golden retrievers.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One enjoyable story in this collection, April 9, 2007

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Gemma "bookworm" (Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: To Mother With Love (Mass Market Paperback)

From the back cover:

THE WAY HOME by Linda Howard
For Anna Sharp, the choice was clear. Saxon Malone might not want their baby, but she did--even if it meant giving up the man she loved. But maybe, if she could show him the value of his past, he might be willing to share the future--as a family.

BACKWARD GLANCE by Robyn Carr
News of her "ailing" mother sent Leigh Brackon and her twin toddlers rushing home. But once there, she found her spry mom sipping medicinal wine and old flame John McElroy knee-deep in landscaping the backyard! Coincidence? Leigh suspected maternal meddling--and feared the truth John might discover in her sons' eyes...

SO THIS IS LOVE by Cheryl Reavis
Little Huong Brenner knew all about the customs of her adopted country. On Groundhog Day you searched for a groundhog, so on Mother's Day... But to betroth her reticent father Jacob to attractive Jessica Markham, Huong had to rally her baffled new brother, invoke her Asian ancestors--in short, manufacture magic...and mayhem!

And my review:

Well, first off, I am NOT a Linda Howard fan, so I didn't expect to like THE WAY HOME. But I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this novella in spite of myself. The relationship between the hero and heroine might turn off a few readers, though. It starts off with the hero propositioning the heroine--he offers to let her be his mistress, but makes it very clear that it will never lead to marriage or true commitment--sex and money is all that he is prepared to give her. Usually, the idea that a woman would sell herself so short would have really turned me off, but I found myself enjoying this story anyway. The hero's pain was so sharp that I found myself caring for him, even when he was a bit arrogant. I liked watching him go from a man unable to express love to one who welcomed it--and his child. And I loved that the heroine was willing to do what was right for her baby, no matter the cost to herself. Four stars.

Robyn Carr's BACKWARD GLANCE failed to capture me. I thought that both the hero and heroine were very immature, and that they had no real idea what love truly is. I was never able to believe that they would be able to make a true adult relationship work, so I had a hard time cheering for them. And the things keeping them apart seemed extremely shallow and childish. This was a story that you could tell where it was going right from the first page. Totally predictable, and not very engrossing. Two stars.

Cheryl Reavis' SO THIS IS LOVE read more like a Young Adult novel than a contemporary romance. More pages were devoted to Huong Brenner and her half-brother's antics (and the strained relationship between them) than were used to develop the relationship between the hero and heroine. While reading about Huong's misunderstandings of our culture was funny, it wasn't what you'd call romance. Ultimately, the romantic part of this book was very lacking, and I was left unsatisfied by it. Two stars.

As with most romance anthologies, the page restriction often hampers the character development. However, Linda Howard's story is a pretty good read, and fans of her will enjoy it.

0 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It was good, April 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: To Mother With Love (Mass Market Paperback)

I had already read the book before and just wanted it for my own. The 3 stories in the book are decent. Of course, my favorite was the one by Linda Howard.