Happy Holidays (Zebra Contemporary Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Janet Dailey (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In Lord of the High Lonesome, the first entry in this two-tale holiday offering, Kit Bonner, feisty North Dakota ranch manager, is antagonized at first sight by the spread's powerfully masculine and arrogant absentee owner, who immediately one-ups her on horsemanship. By the story's finish, she's wearing dresses, perfume and eye shadow; the shrew has been tamed. In the second offering, Heart of Stone, Ivy League grad Stephanie Hall, accountant of an exclusive New Hampshire inn, falls, at first sight, for the resort's powerfully masculine and arrogant playboy owner, who travels with his own "two-legged entertainment system." By the finish, she's given up her hard-earned career to marry the reformed rake. Happy endings? Definitely, as these were first published back in the 1980s as part of Dailey's career-making Americana series (one book for every U.S. state) for Harlequin. Despite a few references to e-mail and MTV, the dated sexual/gender dynamics may cause puzzled postfeminist readers to wonder what year this is. For longtime Dailey fans, however, who missed the book first time around, this nostalgic re-release will seem like a good old-fashioned Christmas gift.
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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Zebra (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821777491
• ISBN-13: 978-0821777497
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,985,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #43 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Romance > Authors, A-Z > ( D ) > Dailey, Janet

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this one, January 14, 2005

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S. Reader "scibarfan" (Franklin, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Happy Holidays (Zebra Contemporary Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

In the first story, Lord of the High Lonesome, Reese is kinda cool, but Kit has the biggest chip on her shoulder. She is very hard to like, which makes the story hard to like.

In Heart of Stone, it's the hero who's a problem. He is such a jerk! Stephanie is okay, and her brother's nice.

In both stories, the girls are simply too young for their positions. The writing is good, but the characters ruin the story.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful!, November 22, 2004

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Margaret (Columbia, PA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Happy Holidays (Zebra Contemporary Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Much to my dismay, these 2 books were written 24 years ago. They should have been left there and not re-issued. I've never read Ms. Daily before and picked this up thinking it was new. I should have checked the first edition dates inside first. Someday, I'll learn.

In "The Lord of the High Lonesome" we have a 21 year old brat named Kit. She is angry all the time, nasty to everybody and doesn't give anyone a chance. She dresses in baggy, ratty men's clothes, wears on old cowboy hat to hide her "glorious" hair and is, generally, loathesome to family, employees and townspeople alike. No wonder the hero fell madly in love with her. What's not to love? I couldn't even finish it. I did skip to the end to see how they worked it out. Ugh.

In "Heart of Stone" we have Kit's opposite. An arrogant, overbearing, cruel man. When we first meet him, he has a blond bimbo installed in his suite at the inn he owns. He is nasty to our TSTL heroine and, pretty much, lets her know a threesome would be interesting. Again, we can see why she fell head over heels for the jerk. He dumps her cruelly and goes away for many months. She pines. She loses weight. She cries a lot. She "looves" him forver. One day, he waltzes back in to her life, tells her he's sort of sorry, that he loves her and will she marry him. After all the pain he put her through, she falls into his arms and ecstatically accepts his proposal. No pride or self-esteem, at all!

I'm not sure how Ms. Daily's current writings stack up against this garbage and I guess I won't find out. I don't want to risk another penny to find out.

Save your money for something better. The back of a cereal box would be my recommendation.