Customer Reviews

Big Sky Rancher (New Montana Mavericks)

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As a huge fan of this author, I was very disapointed in this book. I have read everything by her and this one left me wondering "what happened?"

Lucas O'Reilly has ordered a mailorder bride from an agency in New York, requesting a woman who can cook, clean, etc. What he gets is Jennifer Alston, who can't do either and to me, was ungrateful, rude and unlikeable.

She came to Thunder Canyon for marriage but acted like she was put out by the whole idea. The fact that the marriage remained unconsumated for a very long time, that her husband would be that tolerent with this annoying female was unrealistic. The whole book was just boring, unbelieveable and lacked any spark...skip this one.

Believe me, I am being overly generous in giving this book two stars. The only reason I'm doing so is because I have read many, many of Carolyn Davidson's books and even though they can not all be 5+ this one is pitiful!

It seems almost as if it was written by a different person. There is no spark, no life, no depth of character. There is not even any true feeling of what the landscape looks like, much less the people. Our hero was not loveable or gallant. He actually thinks he is handsome! A real gag for me. The heroine is someone I just wanted to smack on the head and tell her to grow up. She signed on for the mailorder bride situation. What did she think was going to happen when she finally got to her destination? She was totally dishonest in her representation of herself. And please, what in the world did the author think she was doing having HIM move into town to the boarding house to be close to HER?

Bad, bad, bad, bad. Save your money. Instead, read Maggie's Beau, The Tender Stranger, Texas Lawman or A Marriage by Chance. All are by this author (obviously in her previous life) and all rate a 5 from me.

Now if we could just have someone say, "Would the real Carolyn Davidson please stand up"!!!

I will agree on many of the other two star reviewers opinion's on this book and am glad it wasn't only me.. It's as if someone else wrote it not the Carolyn Davidson we all know and love. I usually can read her books in one sitting and this took me three day to finish, I was bound and determined to find the book a good one but regretfully can't.
Jennifer was not a loveable character, she was just so so to me. I hated and I mean hated the Lucas character, he was a domineering, self centered jerk that I hated till almost the very end. He pushed Jennifer around forcing her into the marriage and trapped her at every turn into doing what he wanted. He did however very grudgingly give her time to consummate their marriage but ended up pretty much forcing himself on her .
The story itself was flimsy at best. Man orders bride, bride running away from another man they both live happily ever after blah, blah, blah. It's the same old same old. I wouldn't buy this one and am sorry to say I did.

Okay, so it wasn't upbeat and the hero isn't so much of a hero as he is an arrogant, self-centered person. However, in that it is all too true ... he's a man afterall. I don't understand why the other characters think there is no substance to the characters as I think both of them seem to have their own share.