Oklahoma Sweetheart (Harlequin Historical) [Mass Market Paperback]

Carolyn Davidson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Historical | Publication Date: December 1, 2005

To honour and protect… The fact that Loris Peterson was carrying another man’s child should have been enough to make Connor Webster despise her. But instead he’d made her his wife! Some said that she had betrayed him. But Connor’s fierce passion for Loris moved him to rescue her from an uncaring family – and protect her from a mysterious enemy… ‘Davidson delivers a story fraught with sexual tension.’ – Romantic Times BOOKreviews

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (December 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373293801
• ISBN-13: 978-0373293803
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #697,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not the usual strength of C. Davidson's heroines, February 15, 2006

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J. Morrier - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oklahoma Sweetheart (Harlequin Historical) (Mass Market Paperback)

I had a really hard time with this book. Right up front the heroine is depicted as someone who I could have no sympathy with, no respect for, given her affair with Connor's brother. She doesn't even give a really good reason why it happened, and I can't side with a hero who's in love with that shallow of a woman. It makes me question his own likeability.

What I usually like about Carolyn Davidson's heroines is that they are plucky, and true to their hearts. They show strength under difficult situations, and this woman here is engaged to one man, and so easily seduced by another. And then she expects her fiance to still want to marry her. Very naive, and immature.
I kept waiting for some redeeming quality to surface to at least give me a good reason to like her, but I didn't feel like I found it. I much preferred Davidson's TEXAS LAWMAN; and REDEMPTION novels.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ugh!, December 1, 2005

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SusieQ (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oklahoma Sweetheart (Harlequin Historical) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is so shallow! The character's motivations change from page to page, making them even weaker and more undeveloped.

For example, the heroine, on page 6, might be thinking "I can make it on my own, I don't need the help of anyone", but when the hero appears to take care of her, she turns into Little Miss Helpless on page 10.

I also find it ridiculous that a 19th century Western woman who's raised to ride horses never learned to saddle one, and is also an inexperienced cook and gardener, etc. The author makes her parents well-off, (I guess -- we're never actually told their background) but still, this woman would not have been so helpless around the kitchen and the garden in that day & age.

I also found it ridiculous that the heroine broke into an abandoned house & finds it well stocked with all kinds of supplies. Wouldn't the people who abandoned the claim have sold off the furniture and taken as much of the food as they could with them?

The story begins with the hero's being furious with the heroine, his fiancee, because she is pregnant by his brother. Well, a reader would reasonably assume he'd have a lasting issue with this discovery -at least through half the book, I think- but the hero's anger lasts for maybe all of three pages (or a few days in the story) and then, he's feeling he ought to help her out. Then "helping her out" turns into instant lustful feelings...all of this by Chapter 2. I'm not exaggerating.

Oh, by the way, the brother comes back later in the story and all is forgiven. HUH? He was dirt to both the hero and the heroine in the beginning, but all that anger is just whoosh, gone, when the brother decides to return to town.

While the hero thinks the heroine's parents did a terrible and unforgiveable thing by throwing her out when she gets pregnant, in the next paragraph, he's telling HER SHE ought to forgive them. Then SHE thinks, yes, she COULD forgive them, but the next page she's snubbing her mother in the street, and telling the hero she'll NEVER forgive them. This annoying lack of continuity goes on & on through the story!

I was expecting a story on the level of Cheryl St. John, but all I got was a really low-grade, clumsily written romance. Very disappointing and a waste of time.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oklahoma Sweetheart, November 21, 2005

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someone's daughter "Susan E." (Howell, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oklahoma Sweetheart (Harlequin Historical) (Mass Market Paperback)

I am still amazed at the knowledge it would take to complete a story such as this...a knowledge of the past, it's people, and places. I enjoyed this story, much more than other writen by Carolyn Davidson...I think it was more human. A heartwarming story that was very worthy of my time.