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Storm Family #3
Come Spring
Annika:
She canceled her wedding, longing to explore the wide open West. But nothing could prepare her Bostonian gentility for an adventure that thrust her into the arms of a wild mountain man...
Buck:
Hardened by heartache, he sent for a bride by mail—and mistakenly claimed Annika from the Cheyenne-bound train. Knowing he was wrong didn't change his hungry heart—which told him this was the woman he'd waited for...
Snowbound in Buck's cabin, Annika vowed to keep her heart as cold as the winter nights that engulfed them. But slowly, the fires of passion warmed her soul as she discovered the beauty of true love—of a love that grows as sure as the seasons change.
She canceled her wedding, longing to explore the wide open West. But nothing could prepare her Bostonian gentility for an adventure that thrust her into the arms of a wild mountain man...
Buck:
Hardened by heartache, he sent for a bride by mail—and mistakenly claimed Annika from the Cheyenne-bound train. Knowing he was wrong didn't change his hungry heart—which told him this was the woman he'd waited for...
Snowbound in Buck's cabin, Annika vowed to keep her heart as cold as the winter nights that engulfed them. But slowly, the fires of passion warmed her soul as she discovered the beauty of true love—of a love that grows as sure as the seasons change.
377 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1992
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Jill Marie Landis
76 books250 followersJILL MARIE LANDIS is the bestselling author of nearly thirty novels which have appeared on the NYT bestseller list, USA Today and other national bestseller lists. She has won numerous awards for her heartfelt characters and sweeping emotional historical romances that include SUMMER MOON and MAGNOLIA CREEK and the Irish Angels Series; HEART OF STONE, HEART OF LIES, and HEART OF GLASS. All of her Historical Romances are available in eBook format.
She is currently writing The Tiki Goddess Mysteries series which includes MAI TAI ONE ON, TWO TO MANGO, THREE TO GET LEI'D, TOO HOT FOUR HULA and HAWAII FIVE UH-OH! from Bell Bridge Books.
Toes in the sand and head in the clouds, she is living the dream in Hawaii with her husband, Steve. Jill Marie loves to spend hours at the beach reading or writing and she also loves dancing the hula.
She is currently writing The Tiki Goddess Mysteries series which includes MAI TAI ONE ON, TWO TO MANGO, THREE TO GET LEI'D, TOO HOT FOUR HULA and HAWAII FIVE UH-OH! from Bell Bridge Books.
Toes in the sand and head in the clouds, she is living the dream in Hawaii with her husband, Steve. Jill Marie loves to spend hours at the beach reading or writing and she also loves dancing the hula.
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March 27, 2017
Come Spring, by Jill Marie Landis: 1 "Snoozefest" Star.
TIP OF THE DAY: If you suffer from insomnia, read Jill Marie Landis’, Come Spring. It’s guaranteed to put you to sleep in 5 minutes flat!
I’d try another Landis book to see if everything she writes is equally snooze worthy, but I’m fresh out of NoDoze and too afraid to start one of her books without it.
Seww..... I don’t see myself reading anything else by this author anytime soon. Oh, who am I kidding? Not ever!
Come Spring is just THAT boring!
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TIP OF THE DAY: If you suffer from insomnia, read Jill Marie Landis’, Come Spring. It’s guaranteed to put you to sleep in 5 minutes flat!
I’d try another Landis book to see if everything she writes is equally snooze worthy, but I’m fresh out of NoDoze and too afraid to start one of her books without it.
Seww..... I don’t see myself reading anything else by this author anytime soon. Oh, who am I kidding? Not ever!
Come Spring is just THAT boring!
For information about my rating system, see my profile page.
January 4, 2012
I hate the fact that a.) I read this book and am reviewing it, b.) That I'm giving it 3 stars because in fact I did like it, and c.) I own it.
It's one of two "classical" romance books I own, but I first bought this when I was...in high school? It was the first time I'd ever seen my name in a romance book as the heroine (Annika in "Pippi Longstocking" was the first time I'd ever seen my name in a book).
So, here's the story: Annika Storm (man, I love that name) is going out West from uppity Boston life to visit her cowpoke half-brother, Karl (another strong Swede name) and is mixed up on the train ride for a mail-order bride with the initials "AS" who took one look at the guy who placed the order, and bails.
Annika protests and fights, but this mountain man (read: blond, hunky) hauls her off to his cabin in the mountains to be his bride (read: servant, cook, seamstress, nanny to his two-year old niece...)
I like the guy, Buck, but I'm a puddle of goo for big blond mountain men with blue eyes, a weapons expert, a horseman, a huntsman. And he has long hair, so I can ignore his "Call of the Wild" dog name.
It's a typical, predictable romance book. They dislike each other (she's pretty valid in her dislike, since he did take the wrong woman), they spat, they find the spatting hawt, they get to know one another in a Biblical sense, she gets hauled off again (turns out cowpoke brother hasn't forgotten she was supposed to be on the train), he has to rescue her, cue wedding bells.
I'm not saying this book gets any points for originality or strong Grrrr-female-roar leads. It doesn't.
It has some sweet moments. The little girl ("Buttons") is one of few literary children who isn't annoying, lispy, or a brat.
I recommend this to no one. Unless you want to see my name in print for a few hundred pages, including a steamy kitchen-table scene. Ha!
It's one of two "classical" romance books I own, but I first bought this when I was...in high school? It was the first time I'd ever seen my name in a romance book as the heroine (Annika in "Pippi Longstocking" was the first time I'd ever seen my name in a book).
So, here's the story: Annika Storm (man, I love that name) is going out West from uppity Boston life to visit her cowpoke half-brother, Karl (another strong Swede name) and is mixed up on the train ride for a mail-order bride with the initials "AS" who took one look at the guy who placed the order, and bails.
Annika protests and fights, but this mountain man (read: blond, hunky) hauls her off to his cabin in the mountains to be his bride (read: servant, cook, seamstress, nanny to his two-year old niece...)
I like the guy, Buck, but I'm a puddle of goo for big blond mountain men with blue eyes, a weapons expert, a horseman, a huntsman. And he has long hair, so I can ignore his "Call of the Wild" dog name.
It's a typical, predictable romance book. They dislike each other (she's pretty valid in her dislike, since he did take the wrong woman), they spat, they find the spatting hawt, they get to know one another in a Biblical sense, she gets hauled off again (turns out cowpoke brother hasn't forgotten she was supposed to be on the train), he has to rescue her, cue wedding bells.
I'm not saying this book gets any points for originality or strong Grrrr-female-roar leads. It doesn't.
It has some sweet moments. The little girl ("Buttons") is one of few literary children who isn't annoying, lispy, or a brat.
I recommend this to no one. Unless you want to see my name in print for a few hundred pages, including a steamy kitchen-table scene. Ha!
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October 22, 2016no rating because I only read the first 20 pages. I have read another book from this writer and have to say with regrets that her style doesn't work for me.
November 25, 2012
Well, another great book I read...I love this love story, never failed with Jill Marie Landis, I liker her witty banter, sweet romance and unique plot. Should be memorable for me...I like Annika and Buck, their relationship is not love at first sight actually, the romance grow very slowly, I wonder what make them can get along at last.
I also like how JML show the love scenes, its not that much but it has great tension, chemistry and thats make it *very steamy* for me...
This is just beautiful...hope the next of her which I have ( blue moon, day dreamer and summer moon) is as good as this book as the previous 'Sunflower'...Oh I am so exciting...hehe...life is just so beautiful as beautiful as my great romance book...
I also like how JML show the love scenes, its not that much but it has great tension, chemistry and thats make it *very steamy* for me...
This is just beautiful...hope the next of her which I have ( blue moon, day dreamer and summer moon) is as good as this book as the previous 'Sunflower'...Oh I am so exciting...hehe...life is just so beautiful as beautiful as my great romance book...
April 18, 2020
One of the best historical romances that I have read ever !!
February 24, 2011
I really like this book. Buck Scott corresponds with a woman in Boston to be his mail order bride. Turns out she is sour grapes, but before he can meet her she sees this huge mountain of a man from the mountains in Wyoming just outside her train where he has come to pick her up and take her back into the mountains. She ducks out and runs the other way, leaving incriminating evidence that another Botonian passenger is really her. Anneka Storm is the other Botonian passenger. She has just left Boston and her parents and a groom at the altar to go on an adventure to Wyoming to see her brother and sister-in-law. She is very pretty, sheltered, a little spoiled and doesn't know how to do very much other than sit pretty.
Buck kidnaps her at knife point. He doesn't believe her when she protest that she is not his MOB. By the time he believes her they are snowed in his cabin with his 3 yr old neice that he is raising.
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Buck kidnaps her at knife point. He doesn't believe her when she protest that she is not his MOB. By the time he believes her they are snowed in his cabin with his 3 yr old neice that he is raising.
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February 10, 2018
This was actually a re-read for me. Jill Marie Landis was one of my go-to authors back in the mid-late 90s when I was just discovering and falling in love with historical romance. This book was the 3rd in a trilogy about Annalisa Storm and her 2 children (Kase and Annika) but I didn't realize that when I first picked up Come the Storm. At the time, I did enjoy it enough to go back and read the first two books which is something I almost NEVER do.
Anyway, today I was perusing my e-bookshelf and decided to just read a few pages to see if it was still as I remembered. Two hours later, I was sucked in completely and 2 hours after that, I'd read the whole book again. There were a LOT of elements I had forgotten
At any rate, I was very glad to find that JML's writing still holds up after all these years and while this is a bit tame compared with some of the romance I read these days, it still had a little steam. Very enjoyable again.
Anyway, today I was perusing my e-bookshelf and decided to just read a few pages to see if it was still as I remembered. Two hours later, I was sucked in completely and 2 hours after that, I'd read the whole book again. There were a LOT of elements I had forgotten
At any rate, I was very glad to find that JML's writing still holds up after all these years and while this is a bit tame compared with some of the romance I read these days, it still had a little steam. Very enjoyable again.
January 24, 2023
Annika:
She canceled her wedding, longing to explore the wide open West. But nothing could prepare her Bostonian gentility for an adventure that thrust her into the arms of a wild mountain man...
Buck:
Hardened by heartache, he sent for a bride by mail—and mistakenly claimed Annika from the Cheyenne-bound train. Knowing he was wrong didn't change his hungry heart—which told him this was the woman he'd waited for...
Snowbound in Buck's cabin, Annika vowed to keep her heart as cold as the winter nights that engulfed them. But slowly, the fires of passion warmed her soul as she discovered the beauty of true love—of a love that grows as sure as the seasons change.
She canceled her wedding, longing to explore the wide open West. But nothing could prepare her Bostonian gentility for an adventure that thrust her into the arms of a wild mountain man...
Buck:
Hardened by heartache, he sent for a bride by mail—and mistakenly claimed Annika from the Cheyenne-bound train. Knowing he was wrong didn't change his hungry heart—which told him this was the woman he'd waited for...
Snowbound in Buck's cabin, Annika vowed to keep her heart as cold as the winter nights that engulfed them. But slowly, the fires of passion warmed her soul as she discovered the beauty of true love—of a love that grows as sure as the seasons change.
February 1, 2022
After reading the synopsis and other reviews I wondered how well the story would flow and if it would be “believable”. But I loved this book. The flow and pacing was perfect I didn’t feel it was slowly paced at all. The story came together perfectly, no plot holes. Highly recommend. I will be looking for more books by this author.
December 5, 2020
This was a new author for me even though she has been around a long time. Never read her before. I did enjoy the story. Like historicals in that time period. Did have to scan over a few erotic parts which in my estimation are totally unnecessary to the story. Other than that I did like it.
October 18, 2021
A mix up happens on the train. Buck sends for a mail order bride and picks up the wrong one. Analisa tries to tell him, but she won’t listen. They go to his small shack and she meets his little niece whom he calls Baby. Anyway, they get snowed in, fall in love…
March 5, 2018
4.5 Stars. Classic re-read for me. Still love it.
March 20, 2018
4.5 stars.
July 19, 2018
Could not finish - the two leads does not match - no future for an aristo with a buffalo hunter.
October 16, 2018
Loved the characters. Loved plot
September 27, 2020
Completely bog-standard romance. Some good parts, but a bit too full of contrived problems and cliches. I liked that the heroine was assertive and knew her own mind, and that the book actually portrayed some of the problems that need to be discussed when two people from very different backgrounds want to make a life together.
December 18, 2021
I loved this book in my 20's, decided to re-read a few of her books now in my 50's and they feel very dated and simplistic.
October 19, 2013
Hmm...not sure about this one. I like the H and h for parts of it and wanted to strangle them for others. The H's name also bugged me a bit. I know he is supposedly to have a simple country name but still I cannot reconcile his name to his image for some reason and must say I just cringe sometimes when his name is mentions, name snob that I am...
I hated the h at the beginning. She is spoilt callous and effacious, but she grew throughout the book into a confident and self sufficient young woman that is not afriad to go for what she wants and own up to her actions.
The H has to be the most contrasting male lead I have known. He is big fierce looking with a tender heart and gentle hands, he also has a basic decency that any intimacies they had were mostly at the h's instigation. I found his shock at her advances so deliciously cute, as well as his shy blushes. This H also is very emotional and probably is one that shed tears the most, which is endearing.
The main issue I have is the fact that the story seems to drag on a bit with the same problems being brooded on page after page. The pace is pretty slow which I understand considering the two needed to spend time together to fall in love. What got me impatient is the separation, which I expect, but then again there is the drag of going through the same problem they face again and again, which I am temped myself to say to them yea just forget about it already. Not even sure about the separation again as if he couldn't figure out during the first time what he wants, why all of a sudden will the second shorter one even make a difference. Puzzling...
The ending, with all the draggy problem being reinforced again and again, seem a bit rushed in contrast and not too satisfactory. The same problem is still there, just that one finally mold into something else to make it happen. I find it worrying, and guess if the author didn't inprint time and again what differences they have not only in status, wealth but also a preferred way of life, I would have felt better. I am not of the believe that one can change it's preference in life.
I hated the h at the beginning. She is spoilt callous and effacious, but she grew throughout the book into a confident and self sufficient young woman that is not afriad to go for what she wants and own up to her actions.
The H has to be the most contrasting male lead I have known. He is big fierce looking with a tender heart and gentle hands, he also has a basic decency that any intimacies they had were mostly at the h's instigation. I found his shock at her advances so deliciously cute, as well as his shy blushes. This H also is very emotional and probably is one that shed tears the most, which is endearing.
The main issue I have is the fact that the story seems to drag on a bit with the same problems being brooded on page after page. The pace is pretty slow which I understand considering the two needed to spend time together to fall in love. What got me impatient is the separation, which I expect, but then again there is the drag of going through the same problem they face again and again, which I am temped myself to say to them yea just forget about it already. Not even sure about the separation again as if he couldn't figure out during the first time what he wants, why all of a sudden will the second shorter one even make a difference. Puzzling...
The ending, with all the draggy problem being reinforced again and again, seem a bit rushed in contrast and not too satisfactory. The same problem is still there, just that one finally mold into something else to make it happen. I find it worrying, and guess if the author didn't inprint time and again what differences they have not only in status, wealth but also a preferred way of life, I would have felt better. I am not of the believe that one can change it's preference in life.
June 15, 2019
Both this novel and the first book of this series (SUNFLOWER) won RITA Awards. There’s no doubt in my mind why they won in their particular years. This book completes the series by telling the story of Annika, daughter of Caleb and Analisa Storm. It is critical to read these books in order (Actually, WILDFLOWER is not part of this family saga – see below).
Annika decides to cancel her Boston wedding at the last minute. On her way west to stay with her brother Kase and his wife, she is kidnapped from the train by a man swearing she is his mail-order bride. By the time Buck Scott realizes his mistake, Buck, his young niece and Annika are snow-bound in his humble cabin.
Annika is a product of her pampered Boston life and is shocked by what it takes to stay alive in such difficult circumstances as Buck exists. He is a mountain man who earns his living trapping animals for their food and fur.
Although she never lived in the soddie with Kase and her mother (book 1), Annika has enough of her mother’s gumption to learn the survival skills that Buck is willing to teach her. Buck and Annika grow individually by knowing each other; they are both compelling characters.
Kase, his wife Rose and Zack Elliot return in this story. This story is a beautiful summation of the trilogy.
Flowers
1. Sun Flower (1988) Rita Awards Best Novel winner
2. Wildflower (1989)
3. Rose (1990)
4. Come Spring (1992) Rita Awards Best Novel winner
Annika decides to cancel her Boston wedding at the last minute. On her way west to stay with her brother Kase and his wife, she is kidnapped from the train by a man swearing she is his mail-order bride. By the time Buck Scott realizes his mistake, Buck, his young niece and Annika are snow-bound in his humble cabin.
Annika is a product of her pampered Boston life and is shocked by what it takes to stay alive in such difficult circumstances as Buck exists. He is a mountain man who earns his living trapping animals for their food and fur.
Although she never lived in the soddie with Kase and her mother (book 1), Annika has enough of her mother’s gumption to learn the survival skills that Buck is willing to teach her. Buck and Annika grow individually by knowing each other; they are both compelling characters.
Kase, his wife Rose and Zack Elliot return in this story. This story is a beautiful summation of the trilogy.
Flowers
1. Sun Flower (1988) Rita Awards Best Novel winner
2. Wildflower (1989)
3. Rose (1990)
4. Come Spring (1992) Rita Awards Best Novel winner
April 10, 2007
Crap book -- maybe it's abridged. I certainly hope so. 1 1/2 hours to cover a story about a girl who runs off to Wyoming, gets kidnapped by a man who thinks she's his mail-order bride. They grow to like each other as they wait for the thaw. Have sex, girl gets pregnant, goes back to brother's house and waits for man to come get her.
Yeah, I should have known better, but it was a long trip and I needed something to distract me for the drive.
Yeah, I should have known better, but it was a long trip and I needed something to distract me for the drive.
March 8, 2011
I loved this book!!!! I'm not sure if it was because the topic was something different than what I have been reading lately (Early America instead of 1800 England) or if it was the fact that I connected with Buck and Annika. What a touching love story about a man who deserved to find love after years of heartbreak and sorrow and a woman who needed to learn to be independent.
August 9, 2012
I enjoyed all of Jill Marie Landis' westerns, but only "Come Spring" remains on my keeper shelf. I haven't re-read the book in its' entirety in years, and I'm not sure it would hold up to my current standards. However, if you're new to romance and don't mind a clueless Eastern heroine struggling out West, go for this one.
January 4, 2014
I really, really liked this book. It was a mistaken identity, mail-order bride story. I loved the characters, their personalities were all likeable, the drama and conflict were believable, and it kept you returning to read the next chapter. I have never read a story from this author, but I will definitely check out some of her other books :)
December 28, 2009
I really enjoyed this romance. Buck and Annika were a great hero and heroine. I'm always drawn to romances where two people from different worlds are thrown together and fall in love. Their love story was really sweet, and the narrative moved along at nice pace.
May 9, 2011
I don't know what it is about Buck and Annika but they did get to me. Come Spring is one of my favorite all time historical romance novels. Once you start reading it, you won't be able to put it down.
May 17, 2009
Totally corny romance novel with an unbelievable premise but you can't put it down once you've started.
June 17, 2024
I immediately fell in love with the characters, especially with Buck & Baby Buttons. This was such a touching love story, it brought tears to my eyes.
August 4, 2013
I actually only read this book because the main character shared my name. However, I fell in love with the book and the author and continued to read every book she ever wrote.
November 5, 2014
4.5 stars/B+
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