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5.0 out of 5 stars
If you haven't read Karen Templeton..., September 16, 2010
This review is from: Welcome Home, Cowboy (Silhouette Special Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
you have to try her. I don't care if you don't usually read category romance; she is simply a fantastic writer who packs so much into such short books. If you like:
--believable characters you care about from the first time you encounter them;
--realistic, funny dialogue;
--heartbreaking situations that make you believe, no matter how many romances you've read, that *this* couple may not get their "happily ever after"
--and descriptive narrative that gives you the flavor of the setting without ever slowing the story's pace
then you should try one of her books, and I believe this is one of her best.
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Terrific Characters!, July 10, 2010
This review is from: Welcome Home, Cowboy (Silhouette Special Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book has everything that makes a romance sparkle. It's funny, warm, sexy, touching and deeply meaningful. Put a tortured country music star on a farm with a pregnant woman, her two children, and a bunch of goats, and you have a story that pulls on the heartstrings. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Emotional Wrangling At Its Best!, August 25, 2011
Welcome Home, Cowboy by Karen Templeton is a romance that has been making itself known in my trolling sessions for books to be added to my to-be-read mountain of books. What propelled me to stop everything I was doing and completely immerse myself in this book was the fact that this one seems to have got great reviews and of course being a RITA award winner of 2011 just sealed the deal for me.Cash Cochran returns home to Tierra Rosa almost 20 years after he leaves home and his abusive father behind. A country musician by profession, Cash is a man with enough torturedness in his soul that practically bleeds out of him when he comes face to face with his childhood home, now owned by his childhood best friend Lee Manning. Cash hopes to hash things out with Lee only to find his pregnant and widowed wife Emma holding the fort with two kids and a grandmother in law with her brood of cats, that reaches into something deep inside of Cash that he has no knowledge of and squeezes it tight until he can't help but yearn for things better left unsaid.
From the moment Emma lays her eyes on Cash, all her emotions clamor to give him the comfort and peace that he seems to be in such dire need of. And when Cash decides to help out at the farm intending to sort out how he feels with Emma's narration of events that completely turns upside down what he has believed all his life, Emma knows that she and her brood are in deep trouble if Cash's tender nature that emerges is anything to judge him by.
As the daily grind of the farm life brings them closer, both Emma and Cash realize that there is much more at stake than just their hearts alone and with Cash clamoring to leave as soon as Emma is able to get a handle on things after giving birth, Emma knows that there is no point in asking him to stay. It is when Cash's past beckons him and takes him away that Cash realizes the true meaning of the word home as he finds that and so much more with Emma and her family.
I loved the emotion that practically seeped through the pages right from the very start. Even the first couple of chapters felt like an emotional minefield and that sets the tone of the story till the very end. But through it all, Karen still manages to give the reader the beauty that is in loving and in hoping for better things in life as Cash seems to finally find in Emma and her family.
One of the things that struck me (in a good way of course) was how different Karen's voice is from most of the romance authors. She brings to light different quirks about her characters and their backgrounds without going into a deep narration of sorts but rather places an interesting hint here and there which allows the reader to draw his or her own conclusions which in turn makes the story that much more riveting and fun.
There is no character that you wouldn't fall in love with if you pick up Welcome Home, Cowboy. From Cash with his silver eyes that tries to hide his inner turmoil and pain to Emma who can't help but want to reach deep inside of Cash and fix things for him to Emma's adorable children Hunter and Zoey, whose point of view in the story just made me smile the entire time to the very quirky character we find in Grandmother Annie, the whole story is filled with well rounded characters that just totally invaded my heart and laid siege on it right from beginning.
And last but not the least, a special mention has to be made of Emma's character that just invites a man to want her for herself. She is beautiful inside and out, entirely comfortable with who she is and the best thing about her is her sense of hope and optimism that everything will turn out to be alright in the end. The way she loves so wholeheartedly is the best thing about Emma and she is definitely ending up as a favorite heroine of mine.
Welcome Home, Cowboy is a romance everyone ought to read, just to experience the pull on the emotions that this one does so effectively.
Highly recommended!
Rating=4.5/5
Reviewed by Maldivian Book Reviewer (MBR)
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