Review: 27% (spoiler alert)
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
27 percent. That's all I could tolerate of this book, and that was forcing myself to even get that far! I usually finish the book even if I don't care much for the story. I found this book too juvenile for my taste. I love a good cowboy romance- this was anything but! The writing style was immature, glitches in the story line, nonsensical conversations to just fill up pages. Plot, if there was one, moved way too slowly and couldn't hold my interest from page to page. Thank goodness I decided to stop reading now so I can move on to the next book on my list.  The death of her father was minimized to "And that was the last thing she heard from her father. He died that night in his sleep." Elena returns to college, doesn't seem to grieve, and when she goes back home again there should have been something in the story about how she felt coming home, and not having her dad there; the emptiness, swamped by the emotion of being alone. It would have been the perfect segue into Holton's growing emotions for her, confused by the heat between the, and his sense of duty, protectiveness and compassion. Instead, it was silly and not believable. It could have been a great story with the development of a romance between two people who would never have gotten together if not for the death of her father. And all that was in the first 27% of the story. I skimmed ahead a bit, but it was more of the same immature silliness.