Anything for Love [Paperback]

Connie Brockway (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1994

Determined to overcome her reputation as a spoiled rich girl, Venice Leiland journeys to the remote Rockies to save a small mining town from ruin and comes face to face with her childhood hero, the devastatingly attractive Noble ""Slats"" McCaneaghy.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380777541
• ISBN-13: 978-0380777549
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,725,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great...until the end, June 18, 2011

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J. Perez "Take a Mile Media" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anything For Love (Kindle Edition)

I was thoroughly enjoying this book until about 3/4 of the way through. The action was interesting, the characters somewhat fleshed out...then the author hit a brick wall. ****SPOILERS****

The heroine seduces the hero, both declare their love, then the morning after hits and VOILA, suddenly the heroine admits she doesn't want to marry the hero! If there had been legitimate concerns, okay, I'd have bought it, but the remainder of the book felt contrived, like the author was just trying to fill a specific word count. There were obstacles that the author could have--should have!--used like the father's objections or her would-be fiancee, but instead, it's simply lame. Then, when the author reaches her desired word count, the REAL issues are never resolved. The hero and heroine agree to marry and all the other issues are simply forgotten. HORRIBLE ending. It really ruined this book for me. If not for the ending, this book would have been 4 or 5 stars.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A fun and engaging light-hearted read., July 3, 1999

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"virgie" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anything for Love (Paperback)

Venice Leiland is such a delightful minx! She can practically charm any man like the best of con artists. She has lots of hidden talents and skills and has a big heart. Noble McCaneaghy is exactly that--noble in every sense of the word.

As children they were raised together: Noble, as the charity experiment of the Leiland Foundation; and Venice was his benefactor's daughter. Even as a grown woman, Venice constantly seeks her father's approval but can't seem to get it. And so, she is exiled from New York high society bec. of several scandals. She then decides to go to a town called Salvage, where her uncle has been vainly looking for dinosaur bones for seven years. She is determined to help the people of Salvage survive the closing of the Leiland Spur Line, but it turns out that her intervention is unneccessary bec. her uncle eventually does find his fossils. Meanwhile, Noble is once again cast in the role of her very own 'knight in shining armor,' as she continues to land herself into one scrape after another.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars An early book, August 8, 2011

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B. Brazy (Alameda, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anything For Love (Kindle Edition)

Connie Brockway is a wonderful author, known for her humor and strong characters--both main and secondary. This is her only Western, and apparently a very early work. It has a very strong beginning and the dialogue among the two Native Americans are worth the download price. However, since this is a re-issue, it would benefit from a rewrite, toning down the accented dialogue, and more attention to developing how a hardworking Irish immigrant becomes a gunslinger with a Western accent.