Harlequin Romance Novels are my ‘guilty pleasure’, as a few of my closest friends and family know. While I pride myself on being a great lover of literature, generally fine literature, there’s something about romance novels that drag me straight back into the pits of normalcy.

Well, this is the book that started it. I recieved this & Diana Palmer’s “Wedding In White” as a free set from Harlequin and I’ve been addicted ever since. But…there’s something very special about “Home To You”.

I was 13 when I read this book and it spoke to me. Not only did it appeal to my sense of longing for a great guy (I was in some turbulent relationship’s for a 13 year old), but it also really reminded me of my family and whatnot. Karen Tillman is the heroine in this story and her family is absolutely nuts. Not as nuts as my family, but close! And her sense of being the one her family turns to to keep them sane is something that I, at the time, didn’t quite relate to, but have found over the years to actually be my purpose in my family. My family’s always been nuts, but over the years, oddly, I also stepped into the position of mediator and sanity keeper.

Which is part of why I’ve re-read this novel at least half a dozen times in the past five years.

Probably more.

It’s just that good. Jensen weaves a VERY entrancing world in less than 200 pages, which is something few authors can do. I just can’t say enough about this little book. I love it to bits, and it’s just one of those things that every time I touch it, I smile.

Honestly, there are very few romance novels I can read over-and-over. Sure, I’ve re-read a few here and there that were really good, but Home To You is probably the only one I’ve read this many times.

Anyways, I just felt like gushin’ about it.