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Summary: Exciting-Loving-Rich in History of Black Ranchers
Review: A great story, full of love and history on Black Ranchers in the west. The Roberts family bonded by a strong love for each other and their land stand together to save their land. Grandpa Slim the patriarch figure and a mischevious senior citizen, keeps the reader and the family jumping hoops with his covert shenanigans. Watching the unconditional love between Cheyenne and Jackson blossom is awesome. Hopefully a sequel is in the making about the Roberts-Jackson families future generations. Descriptive scenery of Montana area, beautifully visible. You can see through the characters eyes the beauty and vastness of the land, feel their love for one another and the joy and pain they experience. Great reading - was hard to put the book down - enjoyed it immensely. Janice Sims I applaud you - I enjoy all of your books and look forward to the next one. You make your readers become one with your characters.
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Summary: For Keeps is one of the year's best romances
Review: Cheyenne Roberts has been in love with her neighbor (and brother's best friend) all her life, so when she returns to Montana for a brief vacation she isn't surprised that the feelings are there, full force. The problem is, Jackson Kincaid believes she is just a kid. Well, Cheyenne plans to change his mind.Upon her return to Montana, Cheyenne tells Jackson of her feelings. He faces the truth and in return tells her that he has loved her all this time too, but he doesn't want to act on his feelings yet because Cheyenne, having lived in Chicago for the past 10 years, needs to be sure she wants to be a rancher's wife. Cheyenne agrees and leaves for Chicago, where she decides to quit her job and return to Montana. For Keeps is a wonderful novel about determination and a love so strong that it lasts the tests of life and time. Jackson and Cheyenne's love story is sweet and when they finally do get together you're truly happy. The descriptions of Montana make the reader want to get on the first plane to go to this beautiful country and the Robert's family make me smile. This is the first book I've read by Ms. Sims (not to mention the first ethnic romance I've read) and I truly enjoyed it and give it a high recommendation.
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Summary: A love to last a lifetime
Review: Cheyenne Roberts has been in love with her neighbor (and brother's best friend) all her life, so when she returns to Montana for a brief vacation she isn't surprised that the feelings are there, full force. The problem is, Jackson Kincaid believes she is just a kid. Well, Cheyenne plans to change his mind. Upon her return to Montana, Cheyenne tells Jackson of her feelings. He faces the truth and in return tells her that he has loved her all this time too, but he doesn't want to act on his feelings yet because Cheyenne, having lived in Chicago for the past 10 years, needs to be sure she wants to be a rancher's wife. Cheyenne agrees and leaves for Chicago, where she decides to quit her job and return to Montana. For Keeps is a wonderful novel about determination and a love so strong that it lasts the tests of life and time. Jackson and Cheyenne's love story is sweet and when they finally do get together you're truly happy. The descriptions of Montana make the reader want to get on the first plane to go to this beautiful country and the Robert's family make me smile. This is the first book I've read by Ms. Sims (not to mention the first ethnic romance I've read) and I truly enjoyed it and give it a high recommendation.
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Summary: Give The Lady Six Stars!
Review: Cheyenne Roberts is one heck of a woman. She's pretty, she's smart and she's feisty!. And now she's leaving a very successful accounting career in Chicago to return to Montana. Montana - the land of the "big sky", the home of the entire Robert's clan - and Jackson Kincaid. Jackson Kincaid is every woman's dream - a tall, dark and very handsome rancher! While Jackson will admit that Cheyenne has grown to become a very desirable woman, he can't get past the fact that she's his best friend's kid sister. It's up to Cheyenne to convince Jackson that she's all woman now. The chemistry between Jackson and Cheyenne is hot! The simplest encounters between these two will cause sparks to fly - sometimes in the least expected places. One of my favorite secondary characters is Cheyenne's grandfather Slim - the man is hilarious and absolutely shameless in some of his antics! Slim, along with Cheyenne's mother, siblings and extended family provide a loving family as the background for Jackson and Cheyenne's love story. I like everything about For Keeps - the fact that it is written in a first person narrative, the twists and turns that Ms. Sims puts in the storyline, and of course that unique gift Janice Sims has for describing places so vivdly, they appear "postcard clear" in your mind (you'll really wish you were there.) Every reader likes to find that one special story that they can connect with. The one you can read over and over. The one where it seems the writer is so intuned with your own life that she has captured your experiences - or your dreams. Well, For Keeps is my story. I can see myself riding horses across a ranch in "the land of the big sky". I can also see myself in the arms of that handsome Jackson Kincaid! Thank you, Janice, for writing my story...how did you know?
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Summary: Give The Lady Six Stars!
Review: Cheyenne Roberts is one heck of a woman. She's pretty, she's smart and she's feisty!. And now she's leaving a very successful accounting career in Chicago to return to Montana. Montana - the land of the "big sky", the home of the entire Robert's clan - and Jackson Kincaid. Jackson Kincaid is every woman's dream - a tall, dark and very handsome rancher! While Jackson will admit that Cheyenne has grown to become a very desirable woman, he can't get past the fact that she's his best friend's kid sister. It's up to Cheyenne to convince Jackson that she's all woman now. The chemistry between Jackson and Cheyenne is hot! The simplest encounters between these two will cause sparks to fly - sometimes in the least expected places. One of my favorite secondary characters is Cheyenne's grandfather Slim - the man is hilarious and absolutely shameless in some of his antics! Slim, along with Cheyenne's mother, siblings and extended family provide a loving family as the background for Jackson and Cheyenne's love story. I like everything about For Keeps - the fact that it is written in a first person narrative, the twists and turns that Ms. Sims puts in the storyline, and of course that unique gift Janice Sims has for describing places so vivdly, they appear "postcard clear" in your mind (you'll really wish you were there.) Every reader likes to find that one special story that they can connect with. The one you can read over and over. The one where it seems the writer is so intuned with your own life that she has captured your experiences - or your dreams. Well, For Keeps is my story. I can see myself riding horses across a ranch in "the land of the big sky". I can also see myself in the arms of that handsome Jackson Kincaid! Thank you, Janice, for writing my story...how did you know?
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Summary: A secret love can last a lifetime...
Review: Ever wonder what would've happened if you'd been brave enough to tell the boy next door how you really felt about him? Well that's what this story is about, throwing caution to the wind and letting the chips fall where they may. Cheyenne Roberts has been half in love with Jackson Kincaid since she was eighteen. She's twenty-seven now and still finds herself gasping for air whenever he enters the room. What's a girl to do? Why, grab him and kiss him that's what! She's more than a little surprised when he returns her kiss with just as much passion and longing as she feels. This is a romantic comedy, set in Montana, Big Sky country. Fish on the Yellowstone River, go on a cattle drive from Montana to Wyoming and join the other guests at The Roberts Ranch and Lodge. Become a member of the Roberts family, the African American clan that has been on this rough yet magnificent land for more than five generations.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I don't believe I've ever read anything by Ms. Sims and picked up a copy of For Keeps from the library. I regret to say that it never captured my interest and it certainly didn't hold it. I found the characters awfully shallow and "square". I'm afraid not even "the wait" for Cheyenne's loss of virginity helped. And, in fact after they finally did become conjugal, it was quite disappointing. I may not know what virgins, with broken hymens feel, but I've never known a virgin to be able to perform a stradle position with such ease and experience; even if she could ride horses. I'm sad to say that this is the first book that after the love scene I just gave up and stopped before the end; and I've never done that with any of the countless romance novels I've read. Maybe I'll get bored, or brave, enough one day to read another of Ms. Sim's works. I would like to feel she was a top-notch author, such as was indicated by the other reader-reviewers.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I don't believe I've ever read anything by Ms. Sims and picked up a copy of For Keeps from the library. I regret to say that it never captured my interest and it certainly didn't hold it. I found the characters awfully shallow and "square". I'm afraid not even "the wait" for Cheyenne's loss of virginity helped. And, in fact after they finally did become conjugal, it was quite disappointing. I may not know what virgins, with broken hymens feel, but I've never known a virgin to be able to perform a stradle position with such ease and experience; even if she could ride horses. I'm sad to say that this is the first book that after the love scene I just gave up and stopped before the end; and I've never done that with any of the countless romance novels I've read. Maybe I'll get bored, or brave, enough one day to read another of Ms. Sim's works. I would like to feel she was a top-notch author, such as was indicated by the other reader-reviewers.
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Summary: A Male perspective on this book!
Review: I think this book is very well written. But aren't all of Janice Sims' works great? She is getting better and better, wouldn't be surprised in seeing her as a national best seller, that's what I am looking for. This book is great. A man that's older and a woman wanting this man because she has always wanted him and the man is just not come to the point she wants him to come to. Great book everyone should read it. I'm a blackman and I just had to read it. I am only missing one of Janice Sims' books and I'll get that one soon enough. One of her books, maybe this one, should be turned into a movie. I'm still reading the book but so far its great and I can't put it down. I give it 5 stars plus more. I can't put it down.
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Summary: Definitely for keeps!
Review: Jackson Kincaid certainly sounds like a man that any woman would want to keep forever. That is exactly how Cheyennne Roberts felt. She has been in love with Jackson for what seems forever and as long as she can remember. The problem is she has been holding her feelings inside and not letting them surface. That is until she returns home at the urging of her grandfather. Jackson has been in love or what he thought was love before, but nothing has blossomed until Cheyenne is back on the scene and into his life. Jackson has always had kindred feelings for Cheyenne, but upon her return are those feelings becoming stronger as in what a man feels for a woman when the relationship goes to another level? Both, Cheyenne and Jackson, have some thinking to do and some feelings to sort out. Will what was thought of as shared friendship develop into something more? Will the feelings become love that is a forever love? A love that is "For Keeps."
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