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Montana Creeds: Tyler

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Have you ever read an author's every book and, for the most part, liked her work, then pick up one of hers and it is so bad or so 'off' that you think surely someone else wrote it? That is what my thoughts are on "Tyler". Linda Lael Miller is hit or miss for me, but more hits than misses. So, I autobuy her books.

I liked "Logan" ok, liked "Dylan" better, but I can't even finish "Tyler". I was completely turned off by Tyler's affair with a woman 15 years older than him when he was a teen and dating Lily. I was completely turned off by his lackadaisical attitude, in the present, about it and the fact he cheated on Lily every night that he dated her. Ok, so I thought, there still could a developing story with redemption in my mind. Apparently not to be. Surely Lily would hold him at arms length and not forgive him without, at least, a reasonable explanation for his cheating and having sex with the waitress who 'got around.' Nope. Surely, he would feel some remorse for his slutty ways as a teen. Nope.

SPOILERS:
I was so turned off by Lily's complete acquiesce to Tyler in her present life, when she was supposedly so hurt by his cheating and dumping her. The book took the wrong turn immediately when she so quickly accepted a date with him, without barely a "how are you? How have you been?" Then, right away, she runs into him in a Walmart and "gets off" just from him looking at her. And he's so very pleased with himself, pleased that his affair with the older woman taught him how to "get her off" with just a look. It went down hill from there. The date - he picked her up and instead of a "Hi" or a "You look nice" he tells her they should just get right to the sex. This is the 1st time they have seen each other in years, mind you! AND SHE IS OK WITH THAT! And he 'gets her off' with his mouth and hands in his car - they didn't even make it to dinner! No "How have you been?" No discussion whatsoever about his dumping her. She apparently forgot all her hurt feelings and just wanted an orgasm or 3. Keep in mind, they have just met after several years of not seeing each other or talking to each other.

There was absolutely no character development, story development, no emotions. So, I had to just stop reading. I did skim through to see if maybe somehow it changed, but no such deal.

As I said, this was not a typical Linda Lael Miller in my mind. It was not even close to what I've read of hers. Tyler was unlikable and Lily was spineless. I am sorry I spent money on this one.

Tyler Creed comes back to Stillwater Springs, Montana to decide about his life and meets up with an old love and a son he never knew he had.

That is the short synoposis.

Most folks reading this will probably have read Dylan and Logan. This book will be a real let down and series disappointment. This series is the only set of books I've read for the author, so I don't really know what her writing skills are beyond Montana Creed. This book though was an insult to the fans of the series and possibly her fans as a whole.

Tyler had such interesting hints for character development in the first two books of the series. Not sure what happened here, but the book doesn't make a lot of sense and seems more focused on Tyler's sexual skill than any type of plot line.

It starts out with Tyler returning to Montana with Kit Carson, an old dog he adopted. The author never adequately explains why he did suddenly did this after living a life in the rodeo. We see Tyler in the parking lot of a mall trading his new SUV/Truck for an old run down truck from some guy he never met. Again, there is not an adequate explanation for this. The author seems to imply that Tyler wants to go back as having no money so he can be accepted for himself. Well, duh, as the author states several times in the book--you can search the Internet on anyone for information--which then would lead the searcher(s) to know Tyler isn't rock bottom poor.

Of course the truck breaks down and who should just happen along? Lily Kenyon, Tyler's first love. When they were teenagers they were a hot and heavy item with no sex since Tyler was getting that from a waitress. This in turn drove them apart. Lily's father Hal (who had the heart attack in book two) divorced her mother and sent Lily away. She married and had a child. Husband died, she returns to Stillwater to nurse her father until he totally recovers from the heart attack.

Tyler's sexual skill is such that he is able to bring Lily to orgasm by just looking at her and touching her hand in the Wal-Mart. From there every time they meet he proves what a stud he is between the sheets.

Somewhere in the story he ends up finding out he has a son with the waitress he had the affair with while courting Lily.

And also thrown into the story is the fact that Tyler had been married and his wife had died in a car crash. By the end of the book I was reading pretty fast to make the mediocrity of the story end, but I don't believe Tyler ever told his family or Lily about the marriage. After his estrangement ends with the brothers he does tell one of them something like he'll tell Dylan later. Seems like a pretty big happening in Tyler's life to not mention to Lily.

Lily's character seemed to suffer most. Whereas Tyler's character had very little depth and development, Lily's seems to change for no reason from independent woman to slave to her desire for Tyler.

In Chicago where she had been living it seemed like she was a strong woman. She was raising her six year old daughter, working in a high level/paced job. Owned her own condo. And basically was strong and independent. She returns to Stillwater Springs and suddenly her dad from whom she has been estranged and her daughter tell her she is unhappy and she believes it. Everytime she sees Tyler she thinks with her hormones. In fact after the second hot-between-the-sheets session, she comes home to tell her six year old that she is marrying Tyler. Now really, if you were the parent of a six year old who had lost her father two years before would you just show up the next morning and say you were getting married? Would you not make sure that there was a basis for the marriage to flourish for the child's sake?

Oh well, this is romantic fiction and romantic fiction at its most mediocre.

This is a romance book, but it was really short on romance. Really short on any type of growth between the characters. Really short on a believable plot. Kind of stretched your credibility with all the complexity of the various subplots that never quite came together.

It seemed more like the author said "gosh, I've got a third book to produce and no clue as to what I want to do so therefore let's throw in lots of sex to make up for the abysmal lack of content and to glue the story together."

My advice? Skip this one or at least save yourself the money and get it out from the library.

I was so excited for this to come out. I really thought it would be the best book of the series. It may have been a really good book if I had not of read Dylan. Tyler was the hottest and baddest brother. That hype was lived up to. This book has hotter bedroom scenes than most LLM books. They start out pretty early in the book.

The thing that really threw my for a loop is that this book and Dylan share an almost identical story line. A parent selling a child to the other parent. The book Mckettrick heart also has this story line.

I enjoyed this book but I was really looking for something different. If your a fan of LLM you probably like it.

I was so disappointed in this book! I had read Logan & Dylan and was looking forward to the last book. Tyler was a disappointment from the start. I almost stopped reading at the Wal-Mart scene, but because I usually love Linda's books I continued on thinking it would get better. When Lily took off her underwear minutes after getting in the car with Tyler on the way to dinner after not seeing him for years...I put the book down. There should have been some resolution of the past hurts before they became sexually active. I will be careful and read the reviews on Linda's books before I blindly buy the next one. I am sorry I wasted my money on this one!!

I've read lots of reviews from other readers here in hopes of finding something I must be missing. I mean 13 people liked this book so maybe I overlooked a section or two. After reading the reviews with the 1 star, I have to admit this book was pretty bad.

BEWARE- SOME SPOILERS BELOW>

First, I want to say I wasn't disturbed by the sex scenes. I just didn't understand how Lily, who dumped Tyler 14 years ago for cheating, can "do it" on the first date. Heck, it wasn't even a date...just sex. The reader doesn't feel any connection between the two of them. LLM should've made Tyler grovel just a little bit. Lily doesn't seem to have apparent self-esteem issues so why did she want this rotten weasel dog back.

The most likeable character in this book was Tyler's dog. Also, did Davie have to turn out to be Tyler's son with Lily accepting that fact without any discord at all?

Just want to know what LLM was thinking when she wrote this horrible storyline.

Tyler Creed is a back in Stillwater Springs and this time maybe for good. Lily Ryder is only back to nurse her father after his heart attack. But when this two meet again there feeling for each other come back in full force. Tyler and Lily were dating until she found out that he was seeing someone else and that woman has a son who may or may not be Tyler. But the passion that Tyler and Lily have for each cannot be stopped.
"Montana Creeds: Tyler" is the third book in the series by Linda Lael Miller and I think that it was the worst. Both of the main characters had no depth or emotions to them. I found the story to uninteresting and I couldn't wait for the book to end. I am not even sure if I will another book by Ms. Miller after finishing this book!

Tyler Creed has some unfinished business to settle with his brothers Logan and Dylan, so he's come home to Still Water Springs, Montana, to figure things out. When Tyler sees Lily Kenyon again, he realizes he has unfinished business with her, too. Lily shouldn't be surprised that seeing Tyler again makes her heart beat triple time, but it does. He took her heart with him when he left town all those years ago and not even marriage to another man could make her forget him. Lily is back in Still Water Springs with her young daughter Tess, helping her father recuperate from a heart attack. She knows she's bound to run into Tyler now and again, but she wasn't expecting him to come calling for her. The heat that was always simmering between them hasn't changed a bit in all these years. They spend more time with their mouths on each other than talking. That doesn't mean that Tyler is ready to settle down, though. Coming home isn't easy on either of them. Tyler's past is coming back to haunt him and Lily's got troubles of her own. The one place things always seem to feel right is in each other's arms, but will the past threaten a future together?

Tyler Creed, youngest of the Creed brothers and the one with the biggest chip on his shoulder, is also the sexiest and the most endearing. Tyler and his brothers had a rough start with a drunk for a father and a mother who didn't do much to stop him when his fists started flying. They became three of the best men you could meet, though. When Tyler makes up his mind to do something, he does it. So when he sets his sights on Lily and settling down in Still Water Springs, he goes all in. Lily wears her heart on her sleeve when it comes to Tyler. From the moment they see each other again, you can feel the tension and chemistry between them. They are perfect together. Tyler is one of those stories that from start to finish, just flows effortlessly across the pages. It's as if Lind Lael Miller sat down and Tyler told her his story. The chemistry between Lily and Tyler is incredible and although the sex is HOT, and there is plenty of it, it's more than that. They've got a connection that goes beyond physical. I enjoyed all three books in the Montana Creeds series, but Tyler is my favorite.

Nannette
Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

I loved the first two books in the series but this last one let me down. The author made Tyler seem like a sex god and automatically threw the characters into bed. They didn't resolve the past issues that had, like the fact that Tyler cheated on Lily with Dorreen. It had some good scenes with his brothers and that seemed to resolve well.

The third in the Montana Creeds series, this book was not nearly as good as Dylan's or Logan's. Dylan's was, by far, the best. Lily has been in love with Tyler Creed since she was a young girl. But after a painful breakup, and entirely Tyler's fault, she leaves town. Now, years later, because of circumstances, they're both back in Stillwater Springs. She has a young daughter in tow, and there's a boy who may or may not be Tyler's son from an earlier affair, the affair that was the crux of this painful breakup between Lily and Tyler. The book had a lot of potential. Unfortunately, it got lost in all the frenzied sex scenes. They see each other, he calls her up for dinner, and the sexfest begins, no dinner included. Two days later, he decides he has to marry her, and she agrees. No mention of all the previous hurt he caused her. And no big deal that the kid might be his. The characters were really shallow, and it didn't matter what they had in common, or apparently if they even liked each other. The sex was good, and that's all that mattered. I would have liked to see a lot more depth to the story, and I would have liked Lily to play a little harder to get, given that he'd destroyed her years before. The scene in Wal-Mart, standing behind their carts, was a bit far-fetched and silly. I would have also liked to see more of a connection between Davie and Tyler, and even Tess and Tyler. The only reason I gave this three stars was because Logan and Dylan are frequent visitors in the story.

This book took me about 5 hours to read. It was an easy read, some scenes really had me hooked. Tyler, who I thought was supposed to be the main character (of course Lily was too, but the series itself is about the Creed men changing and staring again to revive their ranch and restore their name), didn't make a lot of changes. He seemed upset with his brothers until the very end. He hardly had any interaction with Lily's daughter his soon to be stepdaughter, and likewise there wasn't much interaction between Lily and Davie. I think the first two books weren't as totally unrealistic as this one--this one was quite a stretch. I also wish the cheating would have been addressed. I mean Lily divorced (or was in the process of it) Burke for it, but she forgives Tyler (with no conversation about it) right off from the start.


CONFLICTS WITH THE SERIES AS A WHOLE:

I do have some conflicts with the timeline, and that caused me to not enjoy the book(s) quite so much. For example, I somehow got in my head during Logan that it had been 12 years since Jake died, then later in the book it said 5. So maybe it was 5--it also said five in Dylan and Tyler, BUT theres a lot of evidence that would back up the 12 year theory. For example: after Lily heard that 6 months after Jake died that Tyler married Shawna, she decided to marry Burke--when Tyler and Lily reunite Tess (her daughter with Burke) is 6. Plus it's also mentioned by Hal that he let Lily marry Burke without question because she was a grown woman with a college education--so it seems it would be more likely that it was 12 years.

Also, the ages of Logan, Dylan and Tyler. The book makes them seem like they are close in age when they really aren't. Logan's mom died when he was three, so even if Jake remarried within a year Logan had to have been four possibly five before Dylan came along. Then Dylan was seven, when his mom died, so that would make Logan at least 11, and Dylan 7. Then Jake remarried again and had Tyler which even though he married within the year that would make Logan no younger than 13, and Dylan 8 or even 9--just speculation due to the time ranges given in the first book. So these older brothers are quite a bit older. So in Tyler when Lily says she grew up with all three of them (even though she was Tyler's age), it just doesn't make much sense, especially when she talks about being friends with Kristy, who was Dylan's HS sweetheart so she had to have been at least 8 years older than Lily. Or when Tyler said he was a sophomore in HS when he played his first basketball team, and his brothers were still in school with him...just blew my mind.

I know these aren't a big deal and don't ruin the whole book for some people, but at times I had to sit back and think about it all again because I didn't undertand how they could have all grown up together. I think the timeline needed some finetuning. It's hard to write three books in a row and have them follow the same timeline, but it throws the reader a little when it doesn't.

Finally, I have to say, I was wondering about Jim's wife in this book. In Logan her name was Caroline, in Dylan her named changed to Kathrine, and in Tyler, it's back to Caroline.