Review: Western romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2011
12 years after being convicted of assisting bank robbers, Van comes back to his home town, to make peace with his family and redeem himself.Tessa, who's father has been killed in the robbery, is trying to survive in a difficult environment.I liked the characters but the plot is thin. Van's acts of defiance at fifteen do not ring true. The main villain's reasons for his actions don't really make sense. The fact that Van learned boot-making in jail or how he managed to to set up a mail-order business is a bit out of character for the time-period or, at least, should have been better explained.This being said, plot is not always the most important part of a romance. It is a light romantic read with a satisfying ending.Some sexual content and pre-marital intercourse, although not graphic, could have been skipped.