Try (Hardcover)

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Editorial Reviews

Review

"My God, it's refreshing to read a novel as good and rank and honest as TRY." ----Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

“Powerful and passionate…a wonderfully insightful tour of the world of rodeo cowboys and the women who care for them.”  Madison Smartt Bell, author of WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
 
“Lily Burana has written a feisty, funny, sexy novel about romantic love, family love, the love of rodeo, and, above all, the marvelous oddities of the western landscape that brings these loves together.  Daryl Heatherly is a captivating, endearing narrator and her leading man, J.W. Jarrett, will charm the chaps off of the most urbane reader.  TRY is a delight and Burana deserves a gold belt buckle for taking us along for the ride.”—Meghan Daum, author of THE QUALITY OF LIFE
 
“…the perfect best friend…reading (Burana) is like taking a road trip with her.”—The Austin Chronicle

 

"It's hard not to feel affection for a writer who starts her first novel with the sentence: 'Before I left Cheyenne, I set my ex-boyfriend on fire.'"

--New York Post

 

"[Burana] earns her spurs by capturing ...the heartbreak of the rodeo circuit for both cowboys and cowgirls."

--Washington Post

 

"Burana cuts her own path through the modern western landscape."

--Library Journal

 

" A ...sweet, hard-not-to-like debut set amid the dusty, manly rodeo circuit...A touching winter-spring romance set amid full Western regalia."

--Kirkus Reviews

 

Product Description

TRY: a rodeo rider’s mettle in the face of being thrown off time after time…
 
In Denver, Colorado, Daryl Heatherly is a promising young artist, hoping to find the place she fits in.  Back home in the country just outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming—the real west—she’s returning to the last place her family all lived together, to a life bordered only by sage and sky.  And it’s there she rubs up against J.W. Jarrett, a World Champion rodeo cowboy and old-school Southern gentleman.  Against her better judgment—not to mention that of her best friend, Shawna, and over-protective brother, Jace—Daryl forges ahead despite her own recent heartbreak, not only dating  J.W., but joining him on the circuit to watch him ride.  Even though the chemistry between them is immediate and undeniable, Daryl is determined not to fall for a cowboy, with all the dust and drama that implies—especially when she finds out that J.W. is a man with secrets. But Daryl hasn’t counted on the grit of a man who has outlasted every other rider in the ring—her cowboy isn’t going to give up that easily…
 
A love story set in the New West world of honky-tonks, buckle bunnies and pointy-toed boots, TRY is a fast, fresh, sensually charged novel about holding on to what you love despite all the bumps and bruises.
 
 

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press (July 11, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031235505X
• ISBN-13: 978-0312355050
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,113,666 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written AND a page turner, July 12, 2006

By	D. Desalvo "stratchick" (Hoboken, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I love a book that lets me live somewhere I never could have gone otherwise. TRY brings the world of rodeo cowboys and the women who love them to life. You're not gonna want to leave. I also love a writer who can really WRITE, and Lily Burana is a marvel.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly Smart and Incredibly Hot!, July 28, 2006

By	Martina Hechter (Alpine, NJ) - See all my reviews

Nerve has an excerpt of TRY online, and I ordered it because I thought this would be a hot, naughty read. It is sexy, but it's so much more. So romantic and uncynical and full of scenes that transported me out of my life and into the West, with sights, sounds, and subtle details. "Trite" if you don't like romance, maybe. Lent out my copy already and know I'll have to beg to get it back. Guys might not like the book, but any girl who's ever been she-masculated will get it, devour it, and love it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Wow, Did I read the same book?, July 20, 2008

By	Deb "ddoo" (Austin, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

Looking over a few of the other reviews I wonder if I did read the same book as others! I am an avid reader, LOVE chic lit, the sexier the better.

I went to great lengths finding and ordering this book in time for a recent trip to Colorado. I always get in the mood for good 'cowboy' love stories when I am in Colorado. I couldn't wait to get into this book and was sorely disappointed once I started!! I found it quite boring, not very believable and quite hard to finish. I was honestly glad when it was done and sorry I wasted the effort to get it, the cash to purchase it and most of all, the time in reading it.