Customer Reviews

Texans at Heart

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I did not realize until I read the other reviews that this was a reissuing of earlier books by DP. I like DP's writing and I enjoyed the 3 stories- they were easy reading, sexy but not in great detail, romances that dealt with 3 Texans who were "women haters" due to earlier relationships- but the right woman comes along and makes their hearts go pitter-patter whether they want their hearts to or not. They try to fight the attraction and are even ugly about it at times but finally give in and accept the love attraction. I really agreed with the reviewer that wrote "Virginal heroines and sexy brooking heros who... behave like jerks ...realize they cannot live without the woman... then work like the devil to win their women back." Gosh that really does sum it up. But they are good stories though the heros get sloppy and silly at times. I did enjoy it for a change and recommend it to read.

Sutton's Way

Sutton's Way is a delightful story about Amanda Callaway, the lead singer of a country rock band, Desperado, and Quinn Sutton, a rancher with a big chip on his shoulder, set in Wyoming. How this is a story in Long, Tall Texans is beyond me. =P Amanda is alot stronger and feistier than some of Diana Palmers' other characters and Quinn isn't as 'pretty' in his looks as some of her other heroes, but he can be just as difficult and exasperating as them! You'll love these two, I know I do!

This is like most Diana Palmer books, with the young, innocent heroine and the older, roughened hero, except in one major way.....the hero is a virgin too! Quite remarkable at the age of 34 and being married before, with a son. Although Quinn seems innocent in the ways of intimacy that are slightly unbelievable, he comes off as being strong and not wimpy in the least. Though you would think he'd know more about it with television and everything even if this book was written in 1989, I still can't find too much fault with that minor detail, it was written in such a way that you can believe he is a virgin.

The dialogue is witty and I laughed out loud more than a few times. Amanda and Quinns' encounters with each other are both steamy and tender, you can just feel the tension crackling between them and the love they feel for each other. The story is touching, moving, realistic, and it'll have you reading it over and over again. Don't miss it!
5/5 stars

Ethan

Ethan begins with Arabella in the hospital after a car accident. She is a professional piano player who ends up staying with Ethan Hardeman and his family.

Arabella is an okay heroine, she's not strong, but she's not totally weak either. I found her to be a little dense and confused at times. Ethan, I found, I could not like. He's very contradictory. He wants Arabella to be a virgin before marriage, but he can strip off all her clothes and take it almost too far. He was really a jerk most of the time, why Arabella loved him, I cannot fathom. And why he couldn't say he loved her was beyond me, and I don't mean earlier on, around chapter 10, when they're talking to each other and supposedly clearing some things up. While most of Diana Palmers' books follow with a young, innocent heroine and an older, more experienced and/or hardened hero, this one falls way short.

I'm not a picky reader, but the more I think about this story, the more it disappoints me. In the words of Ethan's mother, Coreen, "You're both fools. What a horrible waste of time." And that's how I felt.
1.5 stars

Connal

Connal is a great story, I can't say enough good things about it! Connal (or C.C. as he is known) Tremayne is a wonderful hero who you grow to love with each encounter. Penelope Mathews, Pepi's her nickname, is an equally charming and feisty heroine. From the accidental marriage to meeting C.C.'s brothers, you'll love every bit of this book, and you will laugh all through it. I fell in love with these two and hope you will too.
5/5

I don't know which I like better, Connal or Sutton's Way, while Ethan was a miss, these two more then make up for it. I recommend getting this book for these two wonderful, amazing stories!

Long Tall texans and Palmers other books tend to be basically the same book. It is tedious. How many times can you read about a much younger virginal girl in love with a much older man with tons of sexual experience and after problems (i.e. sex, another evil women and her insecurities) live happily ever after? It seems that this men cannot handle a grown women so they become invlved with girls barely out of their teens. Palmer should try writing about adults on equal footing and finally give us a love story between a man and a woman not a man and a girl. Also she has the habit of releasing older books with new covers so readers be careful.

A RERELEASE OF LONG TALL TEXANS 2. IS THERE A MENTION OF THAT ON OR IN THIS BOOK NO. I LIKE DIANA PALMER BUT THIS IS GETTING TO BE A HABIT OF HERS FOR EXAMPLE MEN OF THE WEST IS LONG TALL TEXANS 3 SO DONT JUST RUN OUT AND GRAB HER NEW BOOKS THEY MAY BE RERELEASES

This is three stories in one book: Sutton's Way, Ethan, and Connal. Fun to read!

Texans at Heart is a rerelease of three of Diana Palmer's earlier books. All three stories have young, virginal heroines and sexy brooding heros who at times behave like jerks and push the ladies away until they realize they cannot live without the woman they've fallen in love with. Then they work like the devil to win their women back.

I've always liked when they put more than one short story in a book. I love it when all of the stories are great. Sutton, Connal, Ethan were great stories to put together, they were all Texans at heart and cowboys who were roped by loving women. You can't miss it!