Customer Reviews

Iron Cowboy (Silhouette Desire)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(20)

 

 

I would go over the plot, but it is so similar to her other books that you can read her last 10 titles and get the idea. Usually I give Ms. Palmer the benefit of the doubt and give her about three stars because the books are mildly entertaining, but she isn't re-inventing the wheel. This book is different because the "hero" rapes the "heroine." If you are a reader of romance you see a lot of questionable love scenes, but I think this one crossed the line. I didn't want the characters to end up together. He was too old for her and treated her terribly. Diana Palmer needs to soften up her heroes, age up her heroines and find new plot devices.

I have been a Diana Palmer fan for well over 15 years and am always excited when her books are released. However, her most recent work has become so formulaic and predictable. Every hero has some horrible tragedy in his past, every heroine seems to be between 18-20 years old with a horrible tragedy in her past and has a medical condition or injury that lands them in the hospital and, subsequently staying with the hero while recovering. I realize there are many people that overcome tragedy to lead a wonderful full life, and Diana seems to want to convey this; but it's frustrating to see the same formula being used with new characters. This story was nearly unrealistic--they despise each other one moment and are agreeing to be "family" the next??

I have ready nearly all of Diana Palmer's books and truly enjoy her work. There are many that I read over and over again. So, as a diehard Diana Palmer fan, I can honestly say she is capable of a much better body of work than her most recent releases indicate.

I was so excited to read Diana Palmer's "Iron Cowboy" and so I ordered it from Amazon. I love her books. I should have listened to the reviews and not spent the money! This book started out good and then continued to go down hill from there. I needed to write a review to warn any readers who like Diana Palmer....do not buy this book!!! It is really bad.
The characters were silly, the story was boring and there was very little "heat" with Jared and Sara. The romance part of the story was barely there.
Don't waste your money or time on this one.

I am disappointed that any writer would consider this a romantic plot device. I suppose given her rather stereotypical views on disablities, it was easy for her to contrive that a person with a TBI would not know the difference between real love and date rape.

Wake up Ms. Palmer! These days. strong women (even ones with severe disablities) growup and fall in love with gentlemen.

This book was terrible. It read like a bad 1970's B-movie (I always get the feeling when I read her books that she's not up to date with the current year wer'e in). I do believe Ms. Palmer is stuck in a time-warp and I think the characters (male and female) are just plain stupid. All of her female characters were either born and raised in a barn or kept in the closet and let out occasionally. No one in the US can be as naive as her female characters; they love emotional abuse from their men; the men usually have way too many hang-ups and what reasonably intelligent woman would keep putting up with them. Really! Who would believe that so many former intelligence agents, live in one small town in Texas. Maybe she should stick to historicals.

This had to be one of the worst books I've ever read. The characters were unbelievable, the plot ridiculous and the storyline was just awful. This is the only Diana Palmer book I've ever read and if this is any indication of her work, it will be my last. When she introduces characters from her other books (I suspected that's what they were based on how ridiculously they were introduced) it was so convoluted it was amusing. I tried to explain this book to some coworkers and all I could do was laugh at how ridiculous the whole storyline was. When asked why I didn't just put it down, I said that it reminded me of trainwreck...I couldn't look away!

I originally bought this book because it had to do with Jabobsville and characters from related novels. I didn't anticipate such a disappointment. There was little "attraction" between the main characters, Jared and Sara. Even more, I find it disgusting that any man would accuse an innocent woman ("innocent" in terms of possessing no knowledge of men and intimacy) of trying to get pregnant with his child so that he'd marry her, just minutes after he finds out that he was her first man and feeling abused from the entire experience. What's more, and this may contain spoilers, is that the author focuses on Tony Danzetta's brief operation towards the end of the novel, that you have no idea just how Jared manages to convince Sara to marry him.

This novel was a major disappointment, for the "hero" definitely does not deserve the heroine. I just wish I had thought to check out the reviews before purchasing this novel.

I went through a I-Love-Diana-Palmer journey after reading LAWLESS. My friends, that journey is over, at least for now. I can't handle the abusive men she has a heros. There is no way of sugarcoating this, but the rancher Jared Cameron is scum - seriously. FEARLESS was the bottom of the barrel and Rodrigo Ramirez (from FEARLESS) should have been shot for his abuse, but Jared Cameron (from this book) should have had something vital cut off. So no more searching through Palmer's books to find what I found with LAWLESS.

I knew I wouldn't like this book when I bought it since I have been so disappointed with alot of her more recent books. I bought it anyway just to see how terrible it would be. I used to really like her books but these days there isn't much point in reading them. She seems to junk up her books with boring facts that have no bearing on the story. I love alpha males but hers all the same lately and are mostly just cruel. The heroine is usually a naive very young girl who has no clue about life let alone the older man she falls in love with reguardless of how badly he treats her. And enough with the mercs and such. A plain old cop would be more believable in Jacobsville.

I have to agree with Kathleen and her review. This book crossed the line. It's disheartening to come across an author in this day and age that would write a romance that featured date rape.