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Sierra Bride (Harlequin Historical)

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1 star:		(3)

 

 

BIG disappointment. I really loved Kernan's Winter Woman and was so looking forward to her latest. Unfortunately, the adventure wasn't really there, the character development and the plot were weak, and the book was just a routine formula of so many other recent romance stories I've read lately. The era in California around the Gold Rush is an amazingly fascinating historical time,and there weren't many historical details in the book. Seems like the author short shrifted this one.

The story started off very sweetly-despite the fighting going on - but hero's like Sam aren't very appealing when all they like to do is praise themselves and dwell on how rich they are, how handsome, and how many girls would drop everything to have dinner with them, and they are shocked when the heroine doesn't find them irresistible.

RT was generous giving this story three stars, which usually means it's a so-so story. This one was way off the mark. The writing is awful. It's confusing and hard to follow with awkward sentence structure, making the style rough with poor dialogue transitions. When I have to reread a sentence or paragraph five times and still don't get it, there's something terribly wrong. First the story was dull as they come. It was copywritten in 2009 and the spine wasn't creased. New Book wasn't labeled on the spine either, which told me I'm not the only one who thinks this author's work is not up to standards. If the first two chapters are any indication of what's to come, I can only guess what the rest was like. I just didn't have the stomach or the time. My daughter tried reading it as well, but she was so frustrated with it, she threw it against the wall and broke an antique lamp chimney because of it! I was considering running it over with my car, but it's not worth the $6 it would take to replace it to the library. This book is a classic example why I never buy a book before I read it, otherwise, it would've been long gone in the recycle bin.

Jenna Kernan has a gift for writing interesting, believable heroines, and Kate Wells is a great example. The internal tension she feels, due to her unhappy past, tied to a bad marriage, makes her likable, tough and sympatheic. It's no wonder hero Sam Pickett is fascinated by her.

Jenna writes in realistic, historical settings and adds humor to her writing, and I really like that.

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I never liked Kate in this book. She was never fiesty. She was tired though. Worked a lot. Fiesty. Not even close. I don't think there was a bullet that was aimed at the hero. Sam was okay. He enjoyed business challenges that he gets from having a gold mine and the business opportunites and having eye candy on his arm. The author is very careful not to use the word prostitute but Kate was. She was married at sixteen, had a bad marriage with abusive husband. Tried to better herself but eventually had to prostitute herself again to Sam in order to pay her bills. She loved beautiful clothes and again fell very easily into wearing clothes to look good for all men.

Kate was not an interesting character even with all of the things that happened to her. She takes on blame for any bad thing that happens in the story.

I think that a story can be written with a prostitute being the heroine. It was not done in this story.

I do not recommend this book.