Comments on: REVIEW: ‘Never Love a Lawman’ (2009) by Jo Goodman

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:09:06 +0000

@sybil I've never read A Season to be Sinful! It's on my TBR shelf and I'm saving it as a treat for a time when I'm in need of a slow, satisfying comfort read.

By: sybil

sybil — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:29:54 +0000

I totally agree with your review. Loved this book and it is very much a ‘goodman’ book stylewise but like you said less ‘bleak’ then the last few. So feel a reread of some of her books coming on.

Adore her heroines in general (although have found the last few becoming too similar) I think Rachel is different. And Wyatt is just sigh… Jo does awesome heroes. Most of all the fact that the town and the characters in the town become so apart of the story without taking away from the h/h is wonderful.

And the banter… grand. Really everyone should try Jo Goodman at least once, I would suggest Never Love a Lawman, If His Kiss Is Wicked or A Season to be Sinful. All pretty recent and generally easy to find…lololol not that anyone asked *eg*.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:17:24 +0000

@Amy @Wendy I was looking forward to this book anyway, but The Great Western Drive really put me in the mood. Hope you enjoy it!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:57:51 +0000

Got this one in the immediate TBR. Must. Find. Reading. Mojo.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:28:34 +0000

I’m moving this one up on my immediate TBR list. I just bought it last week and with Wendy, Sybil, and KristieJ’s Western Divide mission a couple weeks ago, I’m all geared up for a good western.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:28:03 +0000

@Leontine If you're not a Western fan, Jo Goodman has also written several books set in the Regency period. It is very odd to read a book in one language and then read it in another. I read several of Boris Akunin's mysteries in German and enjoyed them. Then I tried reading one in English. I just couldn't get into it. Strange! @katiebabs Are you usually a Jo Goodman fan? Never Love a Lawman is written in her usual style - which is not for everyone - but it's far less bleak than her last few books were. I'm curious to know what you think of it.

By: katiebabs

katiebabs — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:01:02 +0000

I’ve been hearing really good things about this latest by Goodman. I will place it on hold at the library.

Great review!

By: Leontine

Leontine — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:49:12 +0000

I read Jo Goodman stories translated in Dutch and it makes me feel like I haven’t read her books in ages. I have two books on the shelves to try me some Western again and I will see if I can feel any love for the genre. Sarah, it sounds like an excellent classic western read, these are the kind of books you love to read again after finishing it