Review: The Wild West
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2012
Wild Lilly is the story of Lilly Brooks, an upper class Connecticut socialite, who inherits a ranch in Kansas from her uncle in 1876.  She decides to travel there, and be the schoolteacher in Caldwell.  It is there she meets Paul, the cowboy rancher on the ranch next to hers, who is trying to care for his brothers after his parents' death.  There is the local villian, Lee Krisp, who is trying to cheat Lilly and get her land.  The story is full of all the elements of the Wild West, with the added benefit of the romance between Paul and Lilly.The thing that I did not like was the very heavy handed use of vulgar slang throughout the romance scenes.  It was so heavy handed that I almost did not keep reading the novel, and really did not fit into the period or the storyline.  It really seemed to be there more for shock value than anything else, and those scenes would have been better written without the vulgarity.  Overall, the entire story is very good, however.I received a complimentary copy of this book in order to review it.