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No one who roamed the steep green mountains and red-rock canyons of Utah Territory was safe from El Cascabel and his renegade warriors - not Janna Wayland, not the wild stallion Lucifer - not even Ty MacKenzie, the stranger who had come for the stallion, and stayed to capture Janna's heart. Now all three must join forces and make their escape, or die trying.Tags
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This book was originally written in 1990, and boy does it feel dated. You wouldn't think a book set in the old West could date so fast, but the hero feels like the villain in today’s book, the guy who made you feel bad about yourself and your body and everything you valued, that diminished you, and that the new hero would have to help you rebuild. He was just so awful to the poor heroine, and his insistence that she was no lady, barely a female, and the put downs he kept giving her, in order to 'protect her from his woman hunger' initially irritated me but them started to make me really sad at the thought that she would going to end up with him for the rest of her life. That he apologizes in the last 5 pages scarcely makes up for it. show more I liked the 'Only' series, but this book was just awful for me. show less
I had a hard time rating this book. There were parts that were 4 stars and parts that were 2 stars, so I gave it a 3 star rating overall.
The author was very good at setting a scene and building external tension. I thought the plot moved along nicely and if it weren't for the terribly cheesy, poorly written love scenes, I would have really enjoyed it.
These words were used beyond belief: savage, ecstasy, violent, elemental, incandescent, bursting. I think a good editor would have gone a long way toward improving this book.
All in all, a good read if you skimmed over the sex scenes (sad to say!).
The author was very good at setting a scene and building external tension. I thought the plot moved along nicely and if it weren't for the terribly cheesy, poorly written love scenes, I would have really enjoyed it.
These words were used beyond belief: savage, ecstasy, violent, elemental, incandescent, bursting. I think a good editor would have gone a long way toward improving this book.
All in all, a good read if you skimmed over the sex scenes (sad to say!).
Well, what to say about this book? At first it seemed a good story about the old west, full of indians and cowboys and all that golden land but soon I became lost on the plot.
The hero was a jerk, full of himself and arrogant and the heroine, well, she was an independent woman until she found him...she rescues him and he treats her really bad in return. In his opinion, he's to "woman hungry" to resist her...well, it really shows the time the book was written: 1989. I guess that at that time this was very good, now is just an ok reading except for all the euphemisms.
It took me a long time to realize the main plot of this book: gaining Lucifer (a horse).
The hero was a jerk, full of himself and arrogant and the heroine, well, she was an independent woman until she found him...she rescues him and he treats her really bad in return. In his opinion, he's to "woman hungry" to resist her...well, it really shows the time the book was written: 1989. I guess that at that time this was very good, now is just an ok reading except for all the euphemisms.
It took me a long time to realize the main plot of this book: gaining Lucifer (a horse).
Standard 80s romance. Liked it at the time I read it.
March 2006
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Elizabeth Lowell is actually a pen name for the real person named Ann Charters Maxwell. Maxwell was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1944. She was educated at the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Riverside, where she received a B.A. in 1966. She married Evan Maxwell, a journalist, on September 4, 1966. They have show more published numerous novels together including The Silk Strategy, The Ruby, Steal the Sun, Redwood Empire, and The Golden Mountain. Maxwell started her writing career in 1975 with the science fiction novel Change. She has written over 60 novels and one non-fiction book. The novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, from romance to mystery to suspense. She has written under numerous pen names including A. E. Maxwell, Annalise Sun, and Lowell Charters. In 1982, she began publishing romance novels as Elizabeth Lowell. She was awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 1994, Romance Writers of America Best Historical Romance in 1994, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Her title Beautiful Sacrifice made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Harlequin Famous Firsts Collection [Reissues] (#14 - Nov 2009)
Harlequin Historical (38 & 199)
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- Original title
- Reckless Love
- Original publication date
- 1990-01
- People/Characters
- Janna Wayland; Ty McKenzie
- Important places
- Western USA
- Dedication
- none
- First words
- Heart pounding, body flattened to the hot earth, Janna Wayland peered down the brush-covered slopes and watched the tall stranger run naked between a double line of Cascabel's renegade Ute warriors.
- Original language
- English
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