Review: Good read; fast moving but too vulgar & explicit
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2012
Pretty good but not the best. Hooks your attention from the beginning but a bit unrealistic for me.  Have been reading 2-3historical romance books a week for over 30 yrs& first time I've ever read one where the "lady" gets locked up for defending herself from drunken cowboys trying to carry her off against her will to bed. Interesting but unrealistic.  A lot of great storyline here & fast moving. Though Abigail seems to straighten up & marries Morgan, I really wasn't sure if she married him out of true love or to protect her in case the pimp (Fletcher) from her past finds her. Didn't have much respect for Abigail for marrying Morgan knowing she was putting him in danger. She lied & hid her past & true self from him, then ran away leaving him lost as to why. What kind of woman does that to a man she loves. I wasn't really that impressed with her. She was too deceitful. Prefer the blunt, honest, feisty women of Jodi Thomas; Linda lael Miller; & many other fantastic writers who though the women can b manipulative & fearful of things, their true goodness shows through when they love the hero so much, their conscience & love wins out & they finally tell their secrets before allowing him to make that lifetime commitment.  I saw none of that in Abigail. Though I didn't find her very likeable the story was good enough to hold my interest.  The truly worst part of the book & totally disgusted me about it was the vulgarity of words used, the constant explicit sexual thoughts & some of the most vulgar & graphic sexual interaction ever read in a historical romance.  Even Zebra never had such graphic & vulgarity in their steamy sexual scenes!  I'm no prude by any means & sex scenes are ok to a certain degree but these step by step graphics or something I've seen in porn!I wasn't expecting it & felt these things were put in for shock factor.  It certainly wasn't lover's making love.  It was straight up lust & not the desire of making love to that person because of the emotional bond developing, or the desire for someone you're falling for. There was no romantic lovemaking in this book. That was a connection I just couldn't make. Besides that, I got very frustrated with wrong word usage, grammer & punctuation errors throughout. Where is the proof reading?  It's very frustrating to read a sentence & then spend time finding the error & right wordage to make sense. Will continue with the next book but hope it's cleaned up without the crudeness & that their is more emotional desire & lovemaking to connect the couple rather than the very blunt words used to describe what they want.  Also hope some can be left to this readers own  vivid imagination. I'd rather fill in the blanks with my own experiences & imagination once they get going, than someone else's step by step idea of lovemaking,; or more precisely f-ing as it was repeatedly called.