I've been on an American Western historical kick lately, so I've been looking for books in that genre. I like Sandra Brown's suspense romance books, so I thought I'd give this one a try. What a mistake!
First of all, I've read the Wheel of Time books, but Ms. Brown has nothing on Robert Jordan when it comes to mentioning breasts. Yes, the heroine Lydia is a wet nurse, but it seemed like every paragraph had a mention of her prominent breasts, yearning nipples, etc. She makes Mr. Jordan look like a novice when he only mentions pushing arms under her breasts instead of 'impudent nipples.'
The story itself is pretty weak. Ross, the hero, is pretty unlikeable throughout the book, and poor Lydia needs some severe counseling in dealing with him. She's a rape victim who's abused again and again - just ugh. The rest of the characters on the wagon train are pretty banal, and the villain is just a caricature of evil.
This is not a book I'd recommend at all. ( )

This was recommended to me but about 75 pages in I realized that the hero in this book dies in the next one which I had already read. That just sucked the fun right out of this one. I think in romance novels there is a covenant that exists between author and reader and that is the sacredness of the happy ever after. In regular fiction anything goes but in romance, a hero/heroine should never be killed off no matter how many books later unless you are writing a totally separate story about their descendants 300 years later.

Historical takes place on a wagon train going west. She has had a baby who died and his wife died in childbirth and she nurses his baby. ( )

Typical early contemporary Brown. The characters make or break her books. ( )

A Really Good Historical Western romance.Caution: Tear-Jerker *sob-sob*Recommended!! ( )

I loved this book I really felt the it came alive for you. I read this in the last 12 mths and would think it was one of her best ( )