I'm reading my first Candace Camp book - an ARC of A Lady Never Tells and to be honest, I'm not all that crazy about it. It's a long book (450 pages) and  it's just not working for me - I just don't see the attraction between the hero and heroine and it's just not that interesting (and if I'm going to invest my time in a book with that many pages, I want to be interested!) I find myself looking ahead to see if it gets any better.

So, I looked over my TBR pile and saw that I have 5 of her books - A Dangerous Man, An Independent Woman, Secrets of the Heart, The Wedding Challenge, and Winterset. Have any of you read her books and if so, what did you think?

She is hit or miss with me.  The Wedding Challenge is part of a series that was REALLY good!  Actually, it's really the only series/books she wrote taht I absolutely loved and was on my auto-buy.  I've read maybe 5 of her books overall, but there were a few others that I DNF.

Total hit-or-miss.

I did enjoy a A DANGEROUS MAN but my favorites by Camp are RAIN LILLY and FLAME LILLY. Both are post Civil War romances which I'm a sucker for. I also like her writing as Lisa Gregory. I seem to enjoy her older books more.

I adored Candace Camp when she wrote under the name of Lisa Gregory, Bitterleaf, Rainbow Season, Crystal Heart , Light and Shadow and Rainbow Promise to name a few of my DIK for her. But when she just starting writing under Candace Camp, her depth of writing changed or something and the books weren't quite as good. I did read Rain Lilly and Flame Lilly, but after the I series I stopped buying her.

Like Keri M. I prefer her older books, particularly the ones she wrote under the pen name Lisa Gregory, to anything "newer".   Try these books:   IMPULSE, ROSEWOOD, (as Candace Camp), or BITTERLEAF or especially THE RAINBOW SEASON (as Lisa Gregory) - which are really good reads.

I find her writing just so-so.  Not bad, but nothing worth standing in line at the bookstore for either.  I agree her older Gregory stuff generally has more depth to it though.

Ahh, I didn't realize that she wrote as Lisa Gregory. I loved Bitterleaf (read that ages ago) and have that one on my keeper shelf.

Pretty much agree with the others. I gave Secrets of the Heart a B- and I liked the first books in the Bridal Quest series, especially the second, IIRC. I thought the last one was awful, but it did hit one of my very hottest buttons.

I, too, think her earlier releases are much better than her current crop of titles. Her Lisa Gregory books are very, very, very good. I haven't bought any of her books in the last few years.

Gail

I read Impulse and thought it was pretty bad.