Review: AGONIZING RENDITION
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2013
Okay, I want you to know I went into this expecting a great read.  What I got was an on going agonizing soap opera with little or no romance.  I really wanted to give this one a 2 star, but I thought that might be too harsh since so many others found it such a good read.I think this had the potential to be a 5 plus star read.  Unfortunately, it just dragged on and on, with the author throwing everything she could think of into the story.  Come on,  the heroine dances with a gunslinger at age sixteen, whom she has stars in her eyes for and doesn't see him again until she is 20.  She's now hunting her families killers.  This hunt drags on an on for at least 3/4 of the story and our gunslinger being the GENTLEMAN that he is, hangs around to protect her. I ask you in what universe does that happen?  They get captured by the outlaws they are trailing, not once but twice, and are captured by Indians that they hand out with for months and never once is the heroine molested or raped. What wild west does this author know about that they rest of us missed.  It just goes on and on.The first time they make love is years later in a BARN and there is very little in the way of description of this momentous occasion. One more time in the sack and she's pregnant, which she of course, she looses in one of her hair brained schemes to capture one of outlaws.It just was way too much for me and I didn't find it romantic or even the lest be interesting.  Tiresome would be the word I would use.  At times I thought if I just had a gun I'd put them all out of their misery.My advise is approach this one with caution.  If you like this soap opera quality to your romance, where they almost do it and then something happens about 50 times than go for it.  Otherwise unless it's free give it a pass.