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bepeachey's review
2.0
As a longtime reader of Lisa Jackson, I picked this up expecting mystery, instead it is a re-release of a romantic novel, actually two, that she wrote a long time ago. It was very hard for me to get into it because I was expecting something so different.
bookdarling1987's review
4.0
Dear Reader,
Montana has provided the setting for some of my favorite stories. In the late 1980s I wrote Tender Trap and Aftermath featuring Denver and Colton McLean—two brothers returning to their family ranch after years away, confronting the secrets left behind. I’m thrilled that they’re now available in one volume, with a striking new cover and title, Backlash . . . I was lucky enough to get an arc of this book and enjoyed it Tessa was 19 and in love. On a horseback ride she gave her all to handsome Denver McLean only to have him desert her without a word after a fire leaved him with scars, his parents dead and suspicion hanging over Tessa's father.. Now Denver is back after seven years. His outward scars from are healed, but inside . . . What returns is a cold, embittered stranger. I am a hopeless romantic because I loved how Tessa saw Denver as the boy she remembered. I also enjoyed that the book had a resolution and that it has a nice tight conclusion with a few twists. Then you have Aftermath which deals with Colton and Cassie and this one I had a harder time wrapping my head around. Not because the relationship wasn’t believable but because Colton was such a hard character for me to enjoy in the first book. After a gun shot wound, he comes back home and Cassie is back in his life and he is not sure that it is something he wants or can handle. While I do not want to give away the story the crafty back story helps the reader understand there past. I have read many Lisa Jackson books and gifted more then my share. This one I just had a hard time connecting with. All and all a 3 star read.
Montana has provided the setting for some of my favorite stories. In the late 1980s I wrote Tender Trap and Aftermath featuring Denver and Colton McLean—two brothers returning to their family ranch after years away, confronting the secrets left behind. I’m thrilled that they’re now available in one volume, with a striking new cover and title, Backlash . . . I was lucky enough to get an arc of this book and enjoyed it Tessa was 19 and in love. On a horseback ride she gave her all to handsome Denver McLean only to have him desert her without a word after a fire leaved him with scars, his parents dead and suspicion hanging over Tessa's father.. Now Denver is back after seven years. His outward scars from are healed, but inside . . . What returns is a cold, embittered stranger. I am a hopeless romantic because I loved how Tessa saw Denver as the boy she remembered. I also enjoyed that the book had a resolution and that it has a nice tight conclusion with a few twists. Then you have Aftermath which deals with Colton and Cassie and this one I had a harder time wrapping my head around. Not because the relationship wasn’t believable but because Colton was such a hard character for me to enjoy in the first book. After a gun shot wound, he comes back home and Cassie is back in his life and he is not sure that it is something he wants or can handle. While I do not want to give away the story the crafty back story helps the reader understand there past. I have read many Lisa Jackson books and gifted more then my share. This one I just had a hard time connecting with. All and all a 3 star read.
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