Review: Humourous and Entertaining
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2012
Wild Desert Rose, written by Van Holt, is a Hellbound Western Romance that turned out better than I expected. I'm not usually a fan of romance because I find them a bit boring but in this case I was pleasantly surprised. There is plenty of romance but also lots of good ole Western action. It's filled with colorful characters that kept me entertained the whole way through. The main character is Rose, a young and beautiful half Indian girl who, due to a poor home life, goes to work for a rich older man who only wants to use her for her body. She ends up killing him and fleeing from her hometown across the Texas West. This is where the story begins and an assortment of characters, both kind-hearted (for the most part) and evil-minded, cross her path and add humor, action and romance to the tale. It's almost like a Western soap opera with all of the twists and turns. Van Holt does an excellent job of drawing in the reader from the beginning. It appears a lot of research has been done to bring the Old West to life as realistically as possible. One thing I do wish is that a bit more of Rose's home life could have been included because it seemed to be quite juicy, but maybe in another book. Some of the book is just plain funny but in a good way. It keeps the story from spinning in the direction of just being a romance. It also keeps the story from being too cheesy, as many romances tend to become. This is the first book in the romance genre that I honestly read from the beginning to the end and, at only one hundred and fifty-eight pages on my ereader, it was the perfect book for me to start developing a taste for this type of read.