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Jezebel

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Frankly, I was shocked by the other comments about this wonderful book. I was hooked from page one. The heroine IS sympathetic. For heaven's sake she's been dumped in the middle of nowhere by a charlatan! And along comes the hero, tragic, no reason to live. Charity and her son give him a reason to live. I highly recommend this book and anything else Sutcliffe writes. Bravo!

I have been a Katherine Sutcliffe fan for a number of years--can't get enough of her books! However, I was disappointed with her latest work. The characters were strange and hard to embrace or identify with. The storyline did not have much depth to it either. My favorite book of hers is "Dream Fever" (would love to see it made into a movie!), so I guess I compare everything to that book. Thanks.

Set in 1870 Texas, this book starts out when the hero, trapped by a snowstorm, stumbles upon the heroine's home while she is in midlabor (with her dead husband's child)! He's on the run, with a bounty on his head, but decides to stick around to help the poor babe survive since his mama is no shape to care for him. What started out as a fascinating story with compelling characters unfortunately soon turned into one of those "annoying heroine" books. Almost immediately the heroine began to rub me the wrong way because of her selfish and self-centered attitude and it only got worse from there. I continued to read the book because I thought the hero deserved a happy ending. His dark and tortured past was absolutely horrendous and the flash backs broke my heart but alas it was not meant to be because he got saddled with the unlikable heroine for life! If you don't mind abrasive heroines and adore sensitive, tortured guys you'll probably like this one more than I did.

This was one of the worst books I've ever read. The heroin was a ... , the hero was an ... . I can deal with one unsympathetic character, but two is a bit much. The story was handled badly as well; the hero goes from disliking the heroine to loving her within the space of two pages. By the end of the book, I was disgusted by the story. Not only was it a terrible love story, it was the kind that just leaves you feeling disillusioned and mildly sick at heart.

He was a walking dead man with one mission in life: kill the men who murdered his family and destroyed his soul. He anticipated completing the job by killing the last survivor in Hell, Texas, a town consisting of murderers, thieves, and assorted other rogues. However, an unexpected encounter with the Widow Bell detours him from the road of destruction he traveled and back into the light.

Charity, the town pariah, never anticipated falling in love with a gunslinger like Rafe, but she will take on the biblical Hell, let alone the Texas town, to keep him by her side.

JEZEBEL is a haunting work that vividly demonstrates the healing power of love on the most lamented of souls. Katherine Sutcliffe captures readers' empathy through angst ridden characters who capture the sympathy of the audience from the very start of the novel. However, it is the poignant story line that takes the audience through an emotional ringer that makes this an interesting book.

Harriet Klausner