⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Reviewed by Helena Regan for Goodreads I went into The Gamble by Karen Black expecting a familiar historical romance and came away surprised by just how layered and immersive it turned out to be. At its core, this is a marriage-of-convenience story, but Black refuses to let it settle into predictability. Emily O’Connor is not […]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Reviewed by Bernadette Longu for Readers’ Favorite Deadly Deception by Karen Black takes the tried and tested genres of detective and murder mystery and adds a healthy dose of romance. The author uses her characters in the most exciting and realistic ways as the story unfolds. The main characters are Officer Doug Atwater, Detective Sergeant […]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Reviewed by Grant Leishman for Readers’ Favorite Not the Same Water by Karen Black is a beautiful, bittersweet romance set in the 1890s in the American West. Becky Russell is a young woman training to be a clothing designer in Red Wing, Minnesota, on the shores of the Mississippi River. When she and her friends […]

Ex-POW’s wife defends her man in a novel way December 16, 2002 This is not a book review. I’m not judging the literary merits of a first, self-published novel. Too delicate a mission. No, this is a rave response to seven years as a prisoner of war and then 20 years of listening, documenting, writing. […]