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nday's review
1.0
1/2 star, if that. If I could give this book negative stars, I would.
I’ve been reading TAC for many years now, and as a general rule I really enjoy her books. She reminds me a lot of Johanna Lindsey – another favourite romance author of mine.
I’d long heard of the Sagebrush Bride, people had talked about it over the years as a great read and I do love a good frontier / Western romance.
This one, however, did not fall into the good category. In fact, the only reason I finished reading this book was because I wanted to write a bad review, to be honest. It was that bad.
At 30% I put the book down, intending to put it aside, because I didn’t like the heroine. The hero was okay, but fairly one dimensional – a half breed who has the requisite issues that comes with, who lusts after the heroine. There wasn’t much more to him, which was a shame, because he could have been fleshed out quite nicely.
The heroine on the other hand was fairly awful. She was mean and bitchy basically to everyone, and I didn’t really understand why I was supposed to give a crap about what happened with her.
So, I put the book down at around 30% and read a few more romances in between. Buoyed by them, I decided to continue with the book. Around 68%, if I hadn’t been reading an ebook and didn’t want to damage my ereader I would have thrown the book across the room in disgust. At this point, I became very very angry with the heroine and with the book.
Why, you ask? Well let me tell you. From when I rejoined the book up until this point things had been ticking along okay. Liz still annoyed me, but it was manageable. At that point I wasn’t super interested in the story, but nothing objectional had been happening so I continued on. That is up until after Liz and Cutter make love.
After that, after getting to know the guy, starting to develop feelings for him do you know what she does? And yes, spoilers ahead. That woman starts in on this horrible, disgusting racist rant that quite frankly put her at number one on my most hated heroine of all time list. I didn’t actually have one up until that point, but she crowned it.
So, I put the book down again, fuming and horrified that something like that would be considered okay to put in a romance, or to think that at all.
Then, after getting worked up about it, I decided to finish the damn book so I could write a comprehensive review on it. So I did. Nothing about it redeemed the heroine for me. I, at that point, didn’t care about the outcome, and quite frankly thought the heroine didn’t deserve her happy ever after.
Terrible book, I don’t recommend it to anyone. Just don’t do it.
I’ve been reading TAC for many years now, and as a general rule I really enjoy her books. She reminds me a lot of Johanna Lindsey – another favourite romance author of mine.
I’d long heard of the Sagebrush Bride, people had talked about it over the years as a great read and I do love a good frontier / Western romance.
This one, however, did not fall into the good category. In fact, the only reason I finished reading this book was because I wanted to write a bad review, to be honest. It was that bad.
At 30% I put the book down, intending to put it aside, because I didn’t like the heroine. The hero was okay, but fairly one dimensional – a half breed who has the requisite issues that comes with, who lusts after the heroine. There wasn’t much more to him, which was a shame, because he could have been fleshed out quite nicely.
The heroine on the other hand was fairly awful. She was mean and bitchy basically to everyone, and I didn’t really understand why I was supposed to give a crap about what happened with her.
So, I put the book down at around 30% and read a few more romances in between. Buoyed by them, I decided to continue with the book. Around 68%, if I hadn’t been reading an ebook and didn’t want to damage my ereader I would have thrown the book across the room in disgust. At this point, I became very very angry with the heroine and with the book.
Why, you ask? Well let me tell you. From when I rejoined the book up until this point things had been ticking along okay. Liz still annoyed me, but it was manageable. At that point I wasn’t super interested in the story, but nothing objectional had been happening so I continued on. That is up until after Liz and Cutter make love.
After that, after getting to know the guy, starting to develop feelings for him do you know what she does? And yes, spoilers ahead. That woman starts in on this horrible, disgusting racist rant that quite frankly put her at number one on my most hated heroine of all time list. I didn’t actually have one up until that point, but she crowned it.
So, I put the book down again, fuming and horrified that something like that would be considered okay to put in a romance, or to think that at all.
Then, after getting worked up about it, I decided to finish the damn book so I could write a comprehensive review on it. So I did. Nothing about it redeemed the heroine for me. I, at that point, didn’t care about the outcome, and quite frankly thought the heroine didn’t deserve her happy ever after.
Terrible book, I don’t recommend it to anyone. Just don’t do it.
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