| REVIEWED BY FROST |
| "Gabriel's Quest for Love" by Kate Hofman |
| Rating: 4 Swords Gabriel's Quest for Love Kate Hofman Dark Castle Lords September 2007 ISBN 978-1-921347-25-2 192 pp. http://romancenroses.com/katesworld/mybooks.html 4 Swords Gabriel’s Quest for Love is a delightful love story that at times will have the reader wishing to knock the hero and heroine’s heads together to make them see sense. Gabriel and Tasha are both wonderful individuals with depths of character, but each is too strong-willed for their own good or for each other’s taste. By the end of the book, they’ve tumbled in and out of romance in a comedy of errors that makes the reader simultaneously laugh, cry, and rail at them. Tasha is a self-effacing beauty who defers in all things to her fun-loving, shallow sister Jade. When Jade returns from a three-month trip pregnant, claiming she’s had a quarter of endless sexual fun, Tasha has no choice but to take Jade in so that Jade will have prenatal care and a safe environment for her unborn baby. As always Jade takes supreme advantage and immediately the baby is born Tasha becomes caregiver in addition to her full-time job. When Jade dies of a sudden aneurysm, Tasha is now mother in name as well as fact. Painter Gabriel Duarte is Old World old-fashioned, a man of Spanish heritage and wonderful artistic talent. More often celibate than most modern males, his intermittent activity with Jade nevertheless resulted in conception, but his offer to marry her for the child’s sake was refused. When he discovers his daughter, at the same time he realizes he’s falling in love with the woman he thinks is the baby’s mother, both he and Tasha set off on an emotional roller-coaster rocketing through adversity toward happiness. Kate Hofman’s stories always make me want to curl up in a comfortable armchair and just relax into the read. That’s the kind of books Kate is noted for, and this reviewer is very thankful to note that she is a prolific author with several novels available and more to come. If you would like to be Reviewed by Frost, send an email to frost@jlfoster.biz or reviewed_by_frost@jlfoster.biz with the subject line "Submission." Include the author's name, title of book, publishing house, genre, page count, and an excerpt. |
