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Happy Holidays (Zebra Contemporary Romance)

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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.

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.