Review: Clumsy
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
....What did I just read? The summary should have given me a clue to what expect of the narration, but since the summaries are not always handled by the author...at the risk of spoiling the story for someone, I feel again I should stop and tell you this first: There is **rape** in this story. It's not detailed but it happens and it's traumatic for the heroine and with that said I keep looking at the sexy (and grossly inaccurately dressed) girl in the cover and wonder if whoever put the image together and thought "yeah, this really reflects the story in the book" was an idiot or plain didn't care.Our story is that of a young woman who suffers through an Indian raid, miraculously survives and is then taken by an insane trapper, while simultaneously our hero suffers the loss of his own family and vaguely starts to ponder the idea of starting his own family since he needs the help. Mind you, the plot could have been interesting if it had been well handled but in all honesty I've seen preteens put together a better story than this author (not to mention actually carry it....)Just to name a few of the things that made me dislike this book: there's misspellings galore, no way to tell when someone finished speaking a sentence and started an action since the author constantly forgets to open or close the quote marks, the whole story is narrated in the *stuff happens* *characters reacts* *nothing happens so we have two or three paragraphs of more stuff happening, this time uninteresting*... and despite the horrible things the heroine goes through you can't sympathize or even feel a smidgen of empathy for her since the narrative is so woodenly and awkward she ends up pretty much being the literally equivalent of a rice cracker: flavorless and utterly uninteresting.We don't get to know the characters. The heroine was a shy girl and was abused and that's all there is to her. The hero is a Standard Nice Guy (tm) template. And he's patient. And that's all there is, also. We are told he has a ranch and that she knows how to keep house, but their extent (besides vaguely mentioning the head count of the herds he has) is never breached.Again, the plot could have been very emotional and deep had it been handled well, but it wasn't.