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To Tempt a Texan (Zebra Historical Romance)

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I can't believe this book received a starred review in Booklist. As a librarian, I am a faithful reader of Booklist. This is the first time I've seen a book fall way short of it's "professional review". In one word, this book was BORING! Every interaction between the hero and heroine, right down to the actual dialogue, was basically the same. The author and the heroine started to get on my nerves and if I read one more line about the wonderful qualities of being a Texan I was going to scream. Don't waste your time or your money with this repetitive snoozer.

The characters in this book are a lot of fun. However, I had to practically force myself to read it all the way through. The one major problem with this book is that the author would explain something once, and then she explained it again every other time it was mentioned in the book, almost as if she didn't think the reader had the ability to remember it from one page to the next. I found this really annoying. One example is that Gentry refers to giving up as "yelling calf rope." Every time she mentioned calf rope, which was often, she would explain that it is a Texan's way of saying give up. The author did this numerous times throughout the book. I felt as though it were a first attempt at writing, although Gentry has written several other books. Also, the editing was horrible, so if that kind of thing bothers you, avoid this book. If you can overlook dozens of grammatical errors, and don't mind feeling like the author thinks you're stupid, then this isn't a bad book. All in all, it's good, but not great.

This book is 345 pages long and the word "outrageous" is used 345+ times. On one page it was used 5 times. I recently purchased all the books in this series to date, but if the next one starts out like this one (which I kept hoping would get better) then they are all going into my "donation" pile. Having been an avid reader of this author's earlier books - it was hard for me to believe she was not the same writer I was used to from 10 years ago.

On the front cover it says "One of the finest writers of the decade" Romantic Times. I am in trouble if this is one of the finest. I did not enjoy her writing at all. In the past, I have said that I would never write a review on a book that I did not finish. Well, I have given up on that motto. I have struggled to finish so many mediocre books. I'm not wasting my time with this one. Made it to page 90. BORING!!! Nothing there to keep me reading further. Couldn't care less about Lacey or Blackie. It's books like this that make me want to dump the romance category all together.