Review: Typical Historical Romance With Familair Loveable Characters, 3.5 Stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2012
For me the book has that trademark of the old west: brothel and a goodhearted whore, a wealthy rancher, an honorable cowboy in the wings, and that innocent Boston belle. In a way the book is what I expected and I read through it anyway for a change of pace, but the characters are the one that surprised me.One in particular, the heroine. At first she is that sheltered wealthy young woman running from what could be a terrible life and hoping for a good life in the west and encountered a good wake up call from life. Sounds familiar right? Not so when she finally adapted and found more than her courage especially towards the hero. I love that she came right and tell it to his face the unfair way he is treating her at the same time laying her heart bare for him.For me the story's hold was not the writting, nor the predictable plot. It was the characters who kept me reading, cheesy and overused they might be but still they came alive to me in every page - main and secondary characters alike.The hero is your regular silently grieving, wealthy widow who is reluctantly falling in love with the heroine. Along the way, with his mixed and conflicting feelings, he will make mistakes, and bloodthirsty that I am, loved watching the heroine call him on them.I liked the pacing of the story too. The fact that conflicts are solved as they arised and were not stretched too thin just to say there was conflict. The sexual tension was there as well without making the heroine look/sound like a fumbling teenager on her first crush.Overall, it's a typical historical read with the expected loveable characters. I have to say that my 3.5 star rating is purely subjective coming from the fact that I find the story predictable. Otherwise, I think any romance reader would enjoy the story.