Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Date
published: 12-12-2012
ISBN: 978-1-61217-447-1
Western Historical
E-book
Reviewed by Helen
Obtained via
publisher
Odessa Courtland’s husband has died leaving her with two daughters and
another baby on the way. It’s almost Christmas, almost time for the baby to be
born, and her husband’s less-than-legal business partner is hounding her for
money he says her husband stole.
The Sherriff sends Deputy Deacon Ramey to check on the outlaw activity
at Odessa’s home and while chasing a bad guy he falls and gets stuck in her
chimney.
This book had the potential to be absolutely wonderful. The basic
premise is clever and the ideas for some of the scenes are excellent. However
both the publisher and the author seem to have been very careless about the
story. There are far too many typos, misused words and outright errors.
(grown/groan, twentyforth/twenty-fourth, etc). The publisher’s blurb
describes the girls as rambunctious, which means noisy and lively, yet they are
silent and obedient for most of the book and even when they speak it’s
extremely politely for such young children.But I could have coped with all this had the story not
driven me insane with head-banging, whiplash-delivering POV changes mid-scene.
Four times the POV changed in one short action scene until I couldn’t even work
out what was happening any more even though I wanted to keep reading. Then
twice in the same paragraph a little later the POV went back and forth.
There were also a few messy plot holes, like the
bottle of laudanum her husband emptied before the book begins is brought out
and fed to the hero to ease the pain of his wound. Also, the resolution of the
story will not solve her problem with the townspeople.
All in all, this book had so much potential, but it
totally disappointed me.
This is an objective review and not
an endorsement of this book.
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