A Rocky Mountain Christmas

For a Christmas story it was very enjoyable. Kind of like a cheesy, sappy, western Hallmark Christmas movie.......more

I've never really read a western novel before but since it was a Christmas book I figured I would try it. I actually enjoyed it. I was expecting the shoot-um-ups as they used to be called, but this didn't have all that. The passengers on the stranded train had quite interesting personalities. Glad I......more

My first (and probably last) book by Mr. Johnstone. This is the stuff that Hallmark specials are made of. It was sweet and thank god, it was short. I wasn't expecting Lonesome Dove Christmas style so I wasn't that disappointed but I was hoping for just a little less cheese and sap. Oh well, I read i......more

From the Book Jacket: Three days before Christmas, Matt Jensen is traveling the Denver and Pacific railway, when an avalanche slams down onto the train, trapping it. But it wasn’t an act of nature that caused the accident; it was a gang of outlaws attempting to rescue their leader,who is being taken......more

The description of this book sounds great: villains cause an avalanche to free their leader from a train - cool! It takes a long time to get to this part of the book (nearly halfway), at which part it all becomes really tense. (spoiler alert!!!) However, this incredibly tense situation ends up being......more