Return of the Prodigal Daughter Reviews

Reviews for Return of the Prodigal Daughter

Return of The Prodigal Daughter is a wonderful story fraught with lots of emotional highs and lows. The book is set at a good pace for readers to indulge in the love of Jake and Sherrie and to be caught up and anticipating other romances brewing on the back burner. - Sandra for CK2 Kwips and Critiques.

The situations and reactions come across as very realistic. Small towns do keep an eye out for trouble so when Jake’s younger, underage half sister is seen in the back of a bar, it makes sense that Jake is called to come get her. When Sherrie stops into the courthouse to pick up an application, the fact that a friend’s younger sister is the receptionist while her friend works in the law office makes perfect sense in a small town. It is almost a given that all the local residents of Wayback know who Sherrie and Jake are and what their relationship was.

This isn’t a book you’re going to have to think about and worry about loosing your place or train of thought. It’s a fun little romance book that you know is going to have a happy ending for everyone. It’s almost as if you’re a fly on the wall watching friends and family as they work out their relationships! This is a great book to read during a snowy afternoon or while laying on the beach.

-Terri Night Owl Reviews. How Sherrie’s family discovered her hiding in the Dew Drop Inn read like a comedy of errors. It also tied into another book I just completed about another member of this family. Ms. Marguerite Arotin had a way of pulling the plot together with her myriad of characters. The love she portrayed for this couple was both heart warming and emotional at times.
This book is fast-paced and entertaining. The storyline is somewhat unique—certainly an interesting way to view love lost and restructured. The sexual tension between Jake and Sherrie was unbelievable. The sex was hot and frequent but not offensive. That didn’t make the decisions they faced any easier, however, because there were no modeling career opportunities in Wayback, Texas.

I recommend this book highly. I truly enjoyed reading it and didn’t stop from the first page until the last. I was totally captivated.

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Sensuality rating: Very sensual

Reviewer: Brenda Talley at The Romance Studio

Marguerite Arotin's The Return of the Prodigal Daughter is an excellent read. Witty, and fast paced, I enjoyed reading a love re-found- type story. The subplots were entertaining and so well written that they are even good enough to rate their own "meanwhile back at the farm" type sequel as far as I'm concerned. This is the third book released by Ms. Arotin and I expect to see more in the future. A great way to spend a lazy afternoon.- Valerie at Manic Readers

This story of love lost, love found flowed very nicely. I liked that there was backstory tucked into their daily lives so you find out what has happened without it being too much at once. I enjoyed meeting some of the secondary characters that are from other Wayback stories. This story was very nicely written and I enjoyed every minute of it. My only complaint, as with some other stories this length, is that I wanted it to gone on longer than it did.

Reviewed by Breia Brickey at

WRDF Review

Full of tenderness, "Return of the Prodigal Daughter" is another great foray into Wayback. Right from the start, it seems everybody’s family – or acquaintances – get into and help gum up the works (ain’t that just the small-town truth?) The brother, the grannie, the dear old aunt Gracie will all get their two cents into this one. Heck, even reporter Cassie from the local newspaper gets into the act. An evening at the famed Blue Bug Saloon will only feed the gossips. Will Sherrie contemplate a cheap fling – or is she ready for something more? Sherrie shows her own quality in her kindness to others; she understands a young lady’s interest in winning rodeo queen, for example. How does she not understand Jake’s protective support of her, since her arrival in back in town?

This is a fast paced Wayback, with snappy dialogue, frustratingly misplaced trust issues, and some great interfering busybodies in the supporting cast.
Snapdragon at Long and Short Reviews.