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Lucky Stars

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This book was definitely better than average - which is a 3 star rating - but it does not quite rate as a four star. I had a hard time relating to the hero of this story. Leon is such a "nice guy" throughout the entire story, yet I didn't feel that his upbringing would have produced such a person. Even from the begining, when he's "forced" into getting married (I use that term lightly, I feel he could have gotten out of it is he really wanted to) he just sort of rolls along with whatever Marjorie says. Where's his backbone? I don't mind a sensitive male lead, but Leon seems a little too soft for his upbringing and his background. Here's a guy who went through 15 step mothers - always being the left out child, the Civil War, hearding on the Texan plains, and wandering the west. You tell me that this kind of man is going to meekly find himself trapped into marriage, have little to no sexual relations with his "wife" and settle down? I don't think so. On a more positive note, I enjoyed the secondary characters, and felt that they added a great deal to the story. Hank, Ruby, and their family gave the reader an interesting perspective of the post-War west. This isn't a bad book to pick up and read if you like this genre, but I think there are better books availible today.

I really liked this one. It was cute and charming and so easy to read. The story was filled with interesting and vivid details of the historical period but it was the characters who made the story. They both grew up surrounded by the worst kind of relationships and it did affect their outlook on life but didn't make them bitter people. Their banter is humorous and natural and their attraction and love for each other is heartfelt and undeniable.

My only complaint comes towards the very end of the book. Up until this point the characters had been pretty open with their feelings, even as confused as they sometimes were, but the author suddenly resorted to a ""lack of communication/big misunderstanding" plot device that tore the couple apart for a few months then wrapped everything up neatly with an epilogue written in first person by the heroine. I thought the epilogue/letter was a neat idea but I would've liked to have *seen* the couple resolve a few things rather than be *told* how everything worked out in two short pages. Despite that little nitpick I thought LUCKY STARS was a terrific love story, one of the better ones I've read this year and I can easily recommend it.

This book is original and amusing and well written. You won't go wrong if you purchase it. I myself can't wait until this author publishes again.

Leon McCoy knew he would never be part of a family. When he was a child, he was raised by over fifteen different step-mothers. Family was not in his bloodlines.

In 1869, when he meets Marjorie Bascom in a Colorado Territory saloon, he assumes that she is a prostitute, looking for a sale. Leon soon learns that Marjorie needs a spouse, albeit, temporarily, so that she can homestead on some available farmland. The Homestead Act requires applicants to be the head of a household, but single women need not apply because legally they cannot be the head of a household (though a single male can be).

He refuses her offer of matrimony, but she sets him up by convincing people that he ruined her. They marry and she nags him into going to Denver to sign the papers. Leon begins to fall in love with her. Marjorie also falls for the charming rascal, who cannot settle down in one place. Still, though they are married and obviously in love, it appears that this couple has no future together.

In her debut novel, Patricia Roy makes it very evident that she has tons of ability that will please fans of the western romance sub-genre. LUCKY STARS is a very humorous look at a by-gone era. The refreshing story line is fun to read due to the verbal exchanges between the two lead characters. While Marjorie is simply magnificent, readers will love Leon, who jocularly disarms his charming spouse. With more novels like this one, Ms. Roy will rightfully move to the celestial levels of the historical romance sub-genre.

Harriet Klausner