Customer Reviews

Rose

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I loved this heroine and I loved this story. A lot of humor was in this book. If you are looking for a fun read this is it.

Well "ROSE" so well written and a great big surprise follow up after reading the Accidental Lawman. I couldn't put it down. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading roman in the late 19th Century, about out west (I live on the east coast) Ft.Sill I did live hear there and Lawton and was so familiarized by it and Indians... It is very exciting and when I finished this book I had to have more reading. AND then there was "Come Spring" !!!

ROSE rates a five because of the ability of the author to tell an excellent story with excellent characters.

With the first surrender to hormones I will give a minus as the story lost its interest power and I couldn't wait to be done with the book.

Kase, as Analisa's 21 year old son did not come across as an exceptionally strong character. Not really weak but not as powerful as I was expecting. But then he is still young.

Rosa was fascinating, her strength of character, or stubborness helped meld her character into one of beauty and tolerance. That is until she put aside her upbringing to surrender to hormones and hop into bed with Kase. And why didn't she get pregnant? Especially after three or four tries?

I was glad to see Zach Elliot show up, as he proves to be a friend to Kase and Rosa. I thought sure he knew of the circumstances of Kase's birth. Just goes to show that secrets do tend to destroy.

Do not forget Quentin Rawlins of Mountain Shadows ranch, he was a friend of Caleb's and hired Kase and interested in Rosa, also concerned about the prejudice she would encounter if she considered marrying a "half-breed".

I was very disappointed to find out that Caleb and Analisa only had the one daughter. For shame M. Landis. This was a great couple and deserved better, family wise.

I thoroughly enjoyed these couples but will pass them onto another reader. Recommended --M Not to say that you should pass them up -- excellent read.

Well, if you read this book, you get a feeling that if you wanted to succeed in the west all you had to do was cook well. You didn't have to know anybody or even know the language well. In just a few weeks you would be so well-off that you could actually employ several people. Whatever. Give me a break, please. I didn't like the heroine. She was too helpless. She let people lead her around. All right, she showed some backbone when she decided to stay in Busted heel (what a stupid name), but she just didn't convince me. She seemed more like a whiny heroine who would always need a man to support her. And her English was just painful. OK, I know she just learned it, but still... Then we have the hero. The hero who, once learning about his father and what he did, doesn't console his mother or do something mature, but runs away without saying a word to anyone. Why? Can't he just deal with it? Grow up! And he's a bully - he comes to heroine's home and threatens her then kisses her. Come on, you can't do that! If he knows what his father did, then how can he do something so similar to another helpless woman? Yuck. Then we have many uninteresting secondary characters who don't bring anything to the story but some more pages to this already too long and drawn-out brain killer. Give yourself a favor and don't read this book.

This has to be one of my favorite Landis books. I have read Rose many times. It is about Italian Rose who goes west with her husband. She enbarks on an journey that is unforgetable. I really like it.