Julie Garwood's Highland books

Paliden · Post by **Paliden** » 21 Sep 2013, 21:17

Does anyone else read Julie Garwood's books? I love her Highland books especially. Here are my favorites from her. What are yours?

The Bride
The Secret
Ransom

Love her older books also....actually, I just love all of her books! LOL!

~Paliden

Cshelton · Post by **Cshelton** » 23 Sep 2013, 16:39

All of the above and others that I have enjoyed are:

The Gift
The Prize

Julie Garwood is awesome!!!

frances8881 · Post by **frances8881** » 03 Oct 2013, 09:13

I enjoyed all her medievel books. The Secret and the Bride were my favorites.

THE SECRET
RANSOM
SHADOW MUSIC
THE BRIDE
THE WEDDING

justducky13 · Post by **justducky13** » 08 Oct 2013, 16:10

I too love the Highland books. Have read all that you folks have listed. Love a man in a kilt!

Lydia · Post by **Lydia** » 19 Oct 2013, 13:32

Oooh, I actually have some of her books in my TR list! Is she that good? I've read an interview of hers in one of InD'Tale Magazine's issues, and the books they showed there looked promising enough.

Paliden · Post by **Paliden** » 21 Oct 2013, 08:18

Yes, she is that good! LOL! If you like historical romance, then I would totally recommend her. She is probably my favorite HR writer.

Lydia · Post by **Lydia** » 21 Oct 2013, 15:02

Paliden wrote:Yes, she is that good! LOL! If you like historical romance, then I would totally recommend her. She is probably my favorite HR writer.

I know it may sound so girly, but how about the "action" behind the door? I mean, there are many excellent writers but not all of them write good love scenes - if they write them at all when it comes to romance, especially historical. Not that it matters, I'm just curious.

Paliden · Post by **Paliden** » 21 Oct 2013, 15:18

No, she does a really good job. In my opinion anyway.

Lydia · Post by **Lydia** » 21 Oct 2013, 15:22

That's good to know. Thank you so much

Paliden · Post by **Paliden** » 21 Oct 2013, 15:23

Your welcome

nagathachristie · Post by **nagathachristie** » 31 Oct 2013, 12:38

I've never been a particular fan of highland romance, but Julie Garwood is one of my favourite authors. She's so consistent, delivering laughs and highly emotional parts that tug at the heartstrings. I even love her contemporary books (I've never liked reading contemporary much except for Linda Howard).

I can't even choose my favourite of hers for her highland series because I thoroughly enjoyed each one. My overall favourite of hers was Prince Charming, which was a regency and western romance.

Lydia · Post by **Lydia** » 31 Oct 2013, 13:13

She's generally a woman with loads of humor. There was an interview of hers in InD'Tale Magazine, and she made even that into one of the most hilarious things I've read. She's certainly one of a kind

nagathachristie · Post by **nagathachristie** » 31 Oct 2013, 13:54

Lydia wrote:
Paliden wrote:Yes, she is that good! LOL! If you like historical romance, then I would totally recommend her. She is probably my favorite HR writer.
I know it may sound so girly, but how about the "action" behind the door? I mean, there are many excellent writers but not all of them write good love scenes - if they write them at all when it comes to romance, especially historical. Not that it matters, I'm just curious.

I have found that, back in the day, (before the 2000s) Regency romance meant no love scenes or closed door scenes, modeled after Georgette Heyer's books. If you categorized yourself as "historical romance" then it meant there may have been some hubba hubba going on, if you get my meaning, even if it technically took place during the Regency era. I read a lot of books with a lot of love scenes these days. Publishers love them, even for historicals. I've read a lot of old historical novels from the 90s that had them too (but not as detailed as this day and age).

Lydia wrote:She's generally a woman with loads of humor. There was an interview of hers in InD'Tale Magazine, and she made even that into one of the most hilarious things I've read. She's certainly one of a kind

I've never read that interview. I wish more novels had more humour, especially in romance. There's a lot of brooding and aching, which is expected, but sometimes falling in love can be fun or embarrassing. I don't always want it to be gothic and so heartbreaking. She does it so well, especially since her men are alphas.

Lydia · Post by **Lydia** » 31 Oct 2013, 14:01

You're right, finding some light heartedness in love stories is rare these days. It's like authors have forgotten how you sometimes feel like flying when in love (or that humor is almost always the key to every door). Some of them show love in such an angsty way, it makes those of us who haven't found it yet scared to even go near the opposite gender... Sure, it's not always a nice emotion, but there should be a balance.