Review: I Don't Read Harlequins For A Reason
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2012
In fact, I don't much care for chick-lit at all.  It's mostly designed for 13-year-old girls who know nothing about sustaining a serious relationship, and it mostly sells to old women with arrested development. (Ooh, will Amazon let me insult some of their most faithful readers this way?) And Harlequin tends to be even flatter than some other chick-lit houses.But horses for courses. I love a well-written western story, and it's mostly mindless pap, just as chick-lit is.  If you like Harlequins, this book may be an extreme disappointment. No pirates, no sailing ships, no bodices swelling under layers of clothing that make her shapeless.In fact, it's fairly well-written.  But as I approach the Advent season in a year that's had enough disappointment, loss and stress to be worth a decade, I was looking for a good Western to provide mindless entertainment, something I could read with my mind on cruise control as I lie, exhausted and arthritic, wishing for sleep that won't come, I couldn't find anything that looked good among the westerns.  Thia one looked interesting, though, and part of the reason I war sore and had swollen feet and legs was an incredible scamp not yet two years old. He's the brightest star in my personal heaven, and in my son's as well.  How could this book NOT be the right choice?"Life is tough," John Wayne said, "but it's tougher when you're stupid",  Unless, of course, you're lucky.  I struck out there, too.  I was stupid enough to judge this book by its cover. and then, once I discovered it was a Harlequin, I kept on reading/  Amazon is ve4y good about taking books back but even if they weren't, what's your time worth? When I'm in pain and struggling to sleep, I wouldn't take $20 to suffer an extra hour of that, and that sure outweighs the cost of an e-book.But stupid me, I kept reading and reading this book.  I won't say I couldn't put it down; I'm of an age where trips down the hall are pretty mandatory. But I kept reading until I hit location 6437 - past the end of the story to a promo for a cookbook of hers that I liked.  No wonder the author's name sounded familiar!It's an OK book for chick-lit, I guess.  Just don't start it thinking you'll read yourself to sleep.