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A Cowboy For Christmas (Harlequin American Romance, No 466)
by Anne McAllister
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harlequin (1992-11-01)
ISBN: 0373164661
EAN: 9780373164660
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Paperback: 252 pages
SKU: mon0000031780
Condition: Good
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Customer Reviews
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Awkward writing style
Rating  (2)
Date: 2006-11-02
From the back cover:
All I want for Christmas...
Colorado cowboy Jess Cooper knew better than to believe in Santa Claus. And if he ever made a Christmas life, "wife and family" would never make the cut.
Still, ever since Alison Richards had returned to the Rocking R, he was finding it hard to resist her charms. Alison had changed--grown up. Worse, she was intent on settling the unfinished business between them.
Jess took one look at the reflections of home and hearth in her eyes and set off like a spooked stallion on the run.
He had to be careful. Alison had set her sights: She aimed to rope herself a cowboy and haul him in in time for Christmas.
And my review:
This was my first try of this author, and probably my last. There might have been a good story buried in here somewhere, but the way it was written was so choppy and disjointed that I couldn't get to it. The focus of the book kept jerking all around, from the present to the past and constantly back and forth. It was full of little sentence fragments, as well as run-on sentences and paragraphs that just didn't seem to go anywhere. I felt like I was reading a very rough initial draft, not a polished novel.
In the very front of the book, the author writes a letter to the reader. She talks about how she writes her books by "groping" her way through them. Well, it shows. I want to feel that the writer (or at least the characters) are in control of the story. The prose shouldn't be jumping all around. Reading this book was like trying to watch a movie where the camera isn't being held steady. Instead of being drawn into the story, the reader is distracted by the jerkiness of the writing.
There are better Christmas romances out there. Don't bother with this one, since reading it is more work than fun, and you can't lose yourself in it the way you should be able to with a good novel.
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A Good Book But Not A Keeper!
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-10-08
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
A Cowboy for Christmas was written by Anne McAllister and was a good book. Allison is the owner of a ranch and she is desperately in need of someone to help run it so she hires a cowboy named Jess. They are attracted to each other but because of past hurts Jess has alot of emotional baggage and trys to keep Allison at a distance because he doesn't want to get hurt again. A good book but just not one I felt needed to go on my keeper shelf!
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