Rating: 
Summary: One star for Writing a Book
Review: "Floating" is exactly what this book is. As a native female Montanan I am offended by this author's careless representation of life in a "small ranching town." It doesn't surprise me that this book won the MTV award, since both characters are more concerned with the placement of their "hips" (see any page for the word "hip"), than with moving the story along on any deep level. They sway, they sashay, they glance and sweat a lot. This author pretends to know about horses and fires. We just spent a summer with fires all around us and unlike her character "Ruby" like the jewel! you can not see flames from seven miles away in the middle of the day, fires don't just go away, and remarkably, they don't let you hike there the first day flames are gone. What is most offensive to me about this thin story is that Robin and her editor must assume that no one reads here, west of the Mississippi. We do. Some of us even write, but more acurately than your award-winning romance novelist.
Rating:
Summary: One star for Writing a Book
Review: "Floating" is exactly what this book is. As a native female Montanan I am offended by this author's careless representation of life in a "small ranching town." It doesn't surprise me that this book won the MTV award, since both characters are more concerned with the placement of their "hips" (see any page for the word "hip"), than with moving the story along on any deep level. They sway, they sashay, they glance and sweat a lot. This author pretends to know about horses and fires. We just spent a summer with fires all around us and unlike her character "Ruby" like the jewel! you can not see flames from seven miles away in the middle of the day, fires don't just go away, and remarkably, they don't let you hike there the first day flames are gone. What is most offensive to me about this thin story is that Robin and her editor must assume that no one reads here, west of the Mississippi. We do. Some of us even write, but more acurately than your award-winning romance novelist.
Rating:
Summary: not impressed
Review: As was previously mentioned in a previous review, I expected something a lot more impressive from MTV. However, I was not impressed with the characters or the plot. The story seemed to drag on forever without direction, and then just in the very last chapter seemed to address the issues that should have been the main portion of the book. Thank goodness I found it in a library!
Rating: 
Summary: floating...not high enough
Review: I am a big fan of MTV books, but Floating lacks what most of them have, courage. This book has a slow paced story that does nothing but float...so the title was well picked. You truly feel like you are floating through the life of Ruby and it's not a very exciting ride.The book had it's moments and it wasn't all bad by any means, but it needed more strength and courage to get me into it. You never feel very connected to the characters and you are often confused by their actions. There isn't a lot of information in the book and their no real reason it should be lacking it. I truly didn't like Ruby at all, Sean was ok, her husband you never really get to know, and her son is ok too...in fact he is the best character in the novel. I wanted to book to be more than it was, but others might enjoy. I had too high of hopes for it and it fell a little short.
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Summary: I'm in love
Review: I am only halfway through this book, and I already have so much to say I can't wait to write the review!!! On the other reviews, I agree with most of them...I feel like I know the characters, I love them all. The scenes are beautiful, you can see them happening and they'll haunt you for days. Some of them, like the memory in the beginning of the feild of wildflowers, make me want to cry because they're so GOOD! But the plot DOES drift around alot, I am always proud of my comprehension at the end of each chapter, It can be alot to keep straight. But the characters are hardly "Trailor park trash." The book does a wonderful job of showing what makes these people tick, and I can relate to each one.
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Summary: very appealing book
Review: I enjoyed reading this book. It had a very interesting story, I did not adore the ending, but I had the whole book read in 3 evenings. Overall I would recomend it to anybody that likes a good book with a great story.
Rating: 
Summary: This Book Smokes!
Review: I got an advanced copy at work left in my mailbox. Glad I did. This book smoked from the first page to the last. Jay Marvin author of Punk Blood
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Summary: Would Expect Something "Edgier" From MTV
Review: I recently found "Floating" set up on a special display at a bookstore. Sucked in by the gimmiky covers, that this book was the purported "winner," and relatively inexpensive price, I purchased a copy. This novel is a quick read and would be great -- If it were a short story. The floating motif works well and Robin Troy gives brilliant and vivid descriptions of the countryside and the key people populating the small town of Whitticker, Arizona. But, alas, not enough for a novel. Finally, I would have expected something a little more cutting-edge from MTV, but then MTV is not the revolutionary idea that it was when I was young. In looking at the Amazon site (which I should have checked first), I noticed Robin Troy hasn't published anything recently. If she is working on a collection of short stories, I would look forward to that, but I would recomend passing on this novel.
Rating:
Summary: Would Expect Something "Edgier" From MTV
Review: I recently found "Floating" set up on a special display at a bookstore. Sucked in by the gimmiky covers, that this book was the purported "winner," and relatively inexpensive price, I purchased a copy. This novel is a quick read and would be great -- If it were a short story. The floating motif works well and Robin Troy gives brilliant and vivid descriptions of the countryside and the key people populating the small town of Whitticker, Arizona. But, alas, not enough for a novel. Finally, I would have expected something a little more cutting-edge from MTV, but then MTV is not the revolutionary idea that it was when I was young. In looking at the Amazon site (which I should have checked first), I noticed Robin Troy hasn't published anything recently. If she is working on a collection of short stories, I would look forward to that, but I would recomend passing on this novel.
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Summary: Damn good first novel; Fresh voice, authentically American
Review: Just a DAMN GOOD novel! Solid entertainment in a well-spun tale. This story is a real page-turner! AND THIS comes from someone completely removed from and disinterested in modern cowboys and small-town tales -- but Ms. Troy has a clear, fresh voice -- her words are magic and I not only found myself transported, but also caring intensely about the adventures of Sean, Ruby, and her son. This is one of those rare authors with that seemingly magical ability to render flesh and blood from paper and ink. Her characters are so believable that, for all I know, they might as well be real. Ms. Troy looks into their souls and then reveals what she sees in a story of the most delightfully-torturous suspense. The plain, crisp style she uses to tell her story not only captures the mood, time, and place of the dry, arid, and beautiful sliver of America in which it is set, but also disguises. By massaging the reader into a sharp focus on the people and events of the story, the underlying world view and wisdom of the author is properly masked and allowed to be the invisible hand that carries the reader and the story to an exciting climax that is totally unanticipated, yet somehow forever true. And SUCH wisdom from someone Sooo young! So unexpected! So wonderful! So deep within her must beat a very old soul. How else could she write with the restraint that so many of her contemporaries lack? While her peers feel some benighted compulsion to leave their own messy footprints all over the page, Ms. Troy has so thoroughly and unobtrusively incorporated her themes and messages into her characters and story that her novel is strong enough to stand on its own. She makes no blatant and/or jarring intrusions into her own book because she doesn't need to - Ms. Troy, as author, becomes the story and thus allows the story to become the reader's. KEEP your EYE on this author! This is ONLY her FIRST novel! A first novel that is better than most people's third. I wait for what dreams may come.
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