Lawless

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Summary: Best Frontier Historial ever read!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Jake a half Apache/half white drifter who has killed for survival meets the classy Sarah, a woman who travels to the small down to stay with her father. Early on we find that Sarah's father is killed in a 'mining accident' and she does not find out until the day she arrives. Jake, escorts her to her father's home (obviously her father couldn't meet her), out in the boonies hoping she will decide to go back where she came from as it is not safe for a beautiful and single young woman to be out there all alone. Unable to convince this lady to return, as she feels that is where she belongs, he grudgingly decides to keep an eye on her for safety purposes. The attraction is certainly there and what I like about this book is that they don't have the 'does he/she love me does he/she not' attitude that continues throughout some books, which is sometimes exasperating. While I enjoyed every chapter of the book, the ending was outstanding. This book is hard to find and when you do it can be quite pricey. I won it on an auction and paid through the nose but I have to say I didn't regret it. A lot of incidents that keep you turning that page.

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Summary: Barely Enough
Review: If you want a cute western story about a woman making dresses and a guy being the typical jerk, read Lawless. If you want a steamy western novel with passion, many strong points and accuracy to the time period, read The Touch of Fire by Linda Howard.

What I found most disturbing about Nora Roberts' Lawless is it doesn't seem like she researched this time period much at all. Aside from the lack of research, her grammar is painful enough to where I want to get a red pen, circle the mistakes, and send the book back to her. I found it very hard to read with the abundance of punctuation errors; I could barely focus enough to read through.

Up until chapter 10 or 11 (of 15), I was bored to tears. The story was there but it seemed all too dull. I kept asking myself why I would read a book that I couldn't keep focus with, but I finished regardless.

The book ended well enough to makeup for the lack of everything else. The last few chapters should have been the book itself, while the chapters earlier in the book were meaningless drivel. If this is how Nora Roberts writes the rest of her books, you can bet this will be my first & last novel of hers.

Lucky to get 3 stars from me.

Rating:
Summary: Barely Enough
Review: If you want a cute western story about a woman making dresses and a guy being the typical jerk, read Lawless. If you want a steamy western novel with passion, many strong points and accuracy to the time period, read The Touch of Fire by Linda Howard.

What I found most disturbing about Nora Roberts' Lawless is it doesn't seem like she researched this time period much at all. Aside from the lack of research, her grammar is painful enough to where I want to get a red pen, circle the mistakes, and send the book back to her. I found it very hard to read with the abundance of punctuation errors; I could barely focus enough to read through.

Up until chapter 10 or 11 (of 15), I was bored to tears. The story was there but it seemed all too dull. I kept asking myself why I would read a book that I couldn't keep focus with, but I finished regardless.

The book ended well enough to makeup for the lack of everything else. The last few chapters should have been the book itself, while the chapters earlier in the book were meaningless drivel. If this is how Nora Roberts writes the rest of her books, you can bet this will be my first & last novel of hers.

Lucky to get 3 stars from me.

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Summary: Storyline info
Review: Romance writer Jackie MacNamara, heroine of Nora Roberts's Loving Jack, has written a historical romance. And this is it!

Half-Apache and all man, Jake Redman was more than a match for the wild Arizona Territory. Sarah Conway, on the other hand, was an Eastern lady who belonged anywhere else but on the rugged land Jake loved. Still, the stubborn beauty was determined to make Lone Bluff her home....

Though Jake was annoyed to find himself playing guardian angel to this tantalizing innocent, he was even more disgusted to find he liked it. Because beneath Sarah's ladylike demeanor beat the heart of a true pioneer, a woman he yearned to make his own.

A classic Western historical novel from the master of romance.

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Summary: Lady Beware!
Review: This book is a MUST READ ! Especially if you have read LOVING JACK also by Nora Roberts. While it is not precisely a sequel it is a way related. Lawless is one the very few historical novels that Nora Roberts has written Rebellion being the other. This is set in Arizonia and it is action packed with a touching love [e-mail]

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Summary: Not So Great
Review: This is supposed to be a historical romance, but it doesn't really read that way at all. The setting isn't drawn realistically at all, and there are really only a few references to how life was in the 1900s. You can easy tell that the setting wasn't well-researched and that N.R.'s attempt to drawn a mental picture of the 1900s fails miserably. The main characters are thoroughly modern, and I just get the sense that N.R. didn't put too much effort into this book. The love story is cute, but so are a million others that are on the market. There is nothing remarkable about this story and nothing that would have you wanting to re-read it or recommend it to friends. This book was written well before N.R. gained in popularity, so I would skip it in favor of a more recent book of hers.

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Summary: Yikes!
Review: This was really bad. Although you could understand she was working with interesting themes, it was not real at all. Since this is one of her earlier novels, I understand. But what the heck is happening with ALL these Nora Roberts novels everywhere. I know she can write well. This is not an example.

Rating:
Summary: Yikes!
Review: This was really bad. Although you could understand she was working with interesting themes, it was not real at all. Since this is one of her earlier novels, I understand. But what the heck is happening with ALL these Nora Roberts novels everywhere. I know she can write well. This is not an example.

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Summary: I liked it!
Review: While KEY OF VALOR and CHESAPEAKE BLUE are my favorites now, I still like LAWLESS. I've yet to be disappointed in a NR novel. Would recommend this one to a friend.

Also recommeded: BARK OF THE DOGWOOD AND THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA