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Will Of Steel (2010)

by Diana Palmer(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0373730675 (ISBN13: 9780373730674)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Silhouette

series

The Men of Medicine Ridge

review 1: Okie Dokey then.When I read one of the thinner Harlequin type romances - I am not expecting deep literature. I am expecting a fluff read to pass the time.I picked up this little volume because of three elements: Man, Cowboy Hat and Horse. I am expecting a stoic rancher/cowboy type of thing here.The male protagonist was a police chief in a small town. There was no horse. The female protagonist had a calf which she kept as a pet. They kept referring to this calf throughout the book. Does the calf age and become a cow. It seems not in the alternate universe in which this story takes place.The woman is young - around twenty. She is not just niave and untravelled. She is dumber than a sack of rocks. Good thing that "Ted," who is ten years her senior is around. She a... moreppears needing to be led around like the stupid calf who never grows up.The story hinges on a completely ludicrous principal that the two protagonist have to marry or they will not receive their joint inheritences and their ranch will be sold (to an evil land developer). I am not sure about Wyomming, but in my parts - there is something called the Wills Variation Act where dumb-assed clauses like this will be very quickly thrown out of court and the proper procedure for the passing down of inheritances will prevail. This will does not have a legal leg to stand on.Suspend your disbelief and just keep reading. You will find that our fluff brained female protagonist is working as a cook in "the only cafe in town" and is being threatened, stalked, harrassed by a guy who formerly sexually assaulted her. The owner of the cafe can't do anything about it. Um... Yeah. Because the owner of the cafe obviously has no balls - I will tell him what he needs to do. You say to the harrassing creep, "If you want to continue to take your meals here, you will not speak to my cook. You behaviour is making her uncomfortable. If you continue to make my cook uncomfortable - you will be asked to leave." Then follow through on this. The fact that the whole town allowed this woman to be harrassed was not romantic, it was downright uncomfortable and offensive in even the last century, never mind the 21st century.There was a supposedly mercenary tough guy who shows up and acts as a bodyguard/security expert - except that he is useless, not even noticing that the bad guy breaks into the woman's home, right under his nose. Whatever.Finally - the sex scenes were almost non existent, except in the last few chapters. They felt creepy. Give it a pass.
review 2: I have no strong feelings about this book. It was just okay for me. I loved Diana Palmer books in the past but recently her books lack that certain something that pulls at my heartstrings. Don't get me wrong the book was not bad but there was something missing. Or maybe the problem was the storyline was the same as all the other tens of thousands of books Palmer has written. I leave it up to my fellow Palmer fans to decide. less

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