- Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Zebra Books (3 Mar 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1420108506
- ISBN-13: 978-1420108507
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 11 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 494,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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They call him 'Devil', and with good reason. The half-breed Santee Sioux bears the twisted scars that made him the fastest, deadliest gunfighter in Texas. Diablo will never forget the kind cattleman who once took him in, but it is his torturer who haunts his every thought. And when some powerful Wyoming ranchers come looking to hire ruthless men for a wicked job, Diablo seizes the opportunity to settle a score...Her name is Sunny, and she more than lives up to it. She's a dazzling ray of light - and the bride-to-be of Hurd Kruger, the man who scarred Diablo. What better way to destroy Kruger than to capture, dishonour, and dump his greatest prize? It's a perfect plan, except for the one thing Diablo never counted on...the only thing that could turn him away from the dark side, the angel who could save his bedeviled soul...
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A dud
29 Mar 2010
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The story is about an 18-yr-old daughter of Wyoming rancher is engaged to an old conniving rancher b/c he told her that was her dad's last wish. She gets kidnapped by scarred half-breed cowboy mercenary who's seeking revenge against her fiance for physically & sexually abusing him along with 3 others 15 yrs prior. Heroine is attracted to Hero who returns her attraction but thinks he's too ugly for her to willingly want to be with him.
Don't know if this is how Gentry typically writes since this is my 1st book of hers but I was either bored or annoyed with this book. The characters were like caricatures. The plot very predictable. Lots of language & theme repetitions (i.e., Hero thinks he's so repulsive to women, Hero keeps on forgetting heroine's name even though he think about her constantly, villain ruminating about how he wants heroine as his wife) as if Gentry just cut & pasted. Most times the language characters used was modern & only Westernized by the words "I reckon". The only part I liked was the author's notes at the end, which gave interesting historical view of Wyoming ranchers, the Shantee rebellion, & other historical tidbits.
Not recommended. This is my 1st book of hers but will try her other books to see if she can surpass this disappointment.
Don't know if this is how Gentry typically writes since this is my 1st book of hers but I was either bored or annoyed with this book. The characters were like caricatures. The plot very predictable. Lots of language & theme repetitions (i.e., Hero thinks he's so repulsive to women, Hero keeps on forgetting heroine's name even though he think about her constantly, villain ruminating about how he wants heroine as his wife) as if Gentry just cut & pasted. Most times the language characters used was modern & only Westernized by the words "I reckon". The only part I liked was the author's notes at the end, which gave interesting historical view of Wyoming ranchers, the Shantee rebellion, & other historical tidbits.
Not recommended. This is my 1st book of hers but will try her other books to see if she can surpass this disappointment.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Beautiful, interesting Western keeper- recommended!
19 July 2010
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This tale starts out from the perspective of our hero Diablo- a young half-breed child found wandering in the Texas wilderness eating raw meat to stay alive. He's been horribly tortured and abused (leaving him brutally disfigured) and has been left for dead- only to be taken in by a kind family who save his life. They teach him to read and give him a start, but obsessed with revenge on those who tortured him, he leaves the kind family, makes his way in the world as a gunslinger and plots his vengeance.
Sunny is the sweet, obedient heroine who finds herself engaged to a wealthy older man, Kruger, in order to serve her father's dying wishes, while unbeknown to her, she is marrying her father's very killer. Kruger is also the man who pioneered the torture of Diablo fifteen years before, but Sunny has no idea that she's marrying a monster. Having always been meek and agreeable, Sunny goes along with the awful scenario and prepares herself to marry the much-older and nasty rancher.
Diablo's course of vengeance includes taking Kruger's life apart piece by piece in an escalating and painstaking process. And when he has nearly everything he wants- he goes after Sunny, Kruger's obsession. He kidnaps her and takes her into the wilderness with him, and she is horrified by both his appearance and her situation, believing HIM to be the monster who would take her from the "good man" that was her father's best friend.
What follows is a beautiful love story of healing and redemption. Sunny blossoms from a meek, obedient child into a woman with a voice and an opinion. The power of Sunny's love breaks down the horror that has surrounded Diablo and the charming vulnerability deep inside him that because of his disfigurement, he'll never have a normal life or find love. Lovely tale and highly recommended. If I had one complaint about the novel, and hence why it lost one star, is that the writer was guilty of some super awkward (and even way cheesy) dialogue at times.
Sunny is the sweet, obedient heroine who finds herself engaged to a wealthy older man, Kruger, in order to serve her father's dying wishes, while unbeknown to her, she is marrying her father's very killer. Kruger is also the man who pioneered the torture of Diablo fifteen years before, but Sunny has no idea that she's marrying a monster. Having always been meek and agreeable, Sunny goes along with the awful scenario and prepares herself to marry the much-older and nasty rancher.
Diablo's course of vengeance includes taking Kruger's life apart piece by piece in an escalating and painstaking process. And when he has nearly everything he wants- he goes after Sunny, Kruger's obsession. He kidnaps her and takes her into the wilderness with him, and she is horrified by both his appearance and her situation, believing HIM to be the monster who would take her from the "good man" that was her father's best friend.
What follows is a beautiful love story of healing and redemption. Sunny blossoms from a meek, obedient child into a woman with a voice and an opinion. The power of Sunny's love breaks down the horror that has surrounded Diablo and the charming vulnerability deep inside him that because of his disfigurement, he'll never have a normal life or find love. Lovely tale and highly recommended. If I had one complaint about the novel, and hence why it lost one star, is that the writer was guilty of some super awkward (and even way cheesy) dialogue at times.
Don't Bother
19 Sep 2010
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I wanted to like this book, I really did! It was my first Georgina Gentry book, and I don't think I'm going to read her again if this is the way she writes all of her books.
First of all, there were a lot of grammar errors, which is a pet peeve of mine, and it really takes away from the story.
Second, this was the stupid heroine I have ever read about. Where in the world is her intelligence? My gosh! I don't know what this poor guy Diablo saw in her, but he deserved someone a LOT nicer. She was stupid to the point where I wanted to toss her over the edge of a cliff and take Diablo for myself. He was so sweet, so caring, so hurt from his past, and what does she do? Tries to escape.
WHAT AN AIRHEAD!
She actually wanted to go home and marry her UNCLE who made her feel uncomfortable every time he was near. She would rather do that, than stay with Diablo? I can't even go over the amount of things she did that made me stop and think, "Oh my God...I cannot believe this is the woman who's supposed to end up with this misunderstood hero..."
She was an absolute biotch when it came to his scar. She thought that because he had a scar, he must be dangerous.....Um, what? And, for the life of her, it was just utterly impossible to believe that her perverted uncle was the person who hurt Diablo...Was she seriously 18? Or still 16?
Diablo was one of the best heroes I've ever read about. Too bad he had to get (somehow) ensnared by this brainless witch of a character.
I wished with all my heart that I was going to come across a scene where he'd let her off somewhere and find a sweet, NON-SHALLOW, NON-JUDGMENTAL young woman who would love him with all her heart and see him for all he was on the inside, and not try to escape him every five seconds, or sell herself to him for her "freedom." Seriously, the stuff this ditz did...
First of all, there were a lot of grammar errors, which is a pet peeve of mine, and it really takes away from the story.
Second, this was the stupid heroine I have ever read about. Where in the world is her intelligence? My gosh! I don't know what this poor guy Diablo saw in her, but he deserved someone a LOT nicer. She was stupid to the point where I wanted to toss her over the edge of a cliff and take Diablo for myself. He was so sweet, so caring, so hurt from his past, and what does she do? Tries to escape.
WHAT AN AIRHEAD!
She actually wanted to go home and marry her UNCLE who made her feel uncomfortable every time he was near. She would rather do that, than stay with Diablo? I can't even go over the amount of things she did that made me stop and think, "Oh my God...I cannot believe this is the woman who's supposed to end up with this misunderstood hero..."
She was an absolute biotch when it came to his scar. She thought that because he had a scar, he must be dangerous.....Um, what? And, for the life of her, it was just utterly impossible to believe that her perverted uncle was the person who hurt Diablo...Was she seriously 18? Or still 16?
Diablo was one of the best heroes I've ever read about. Too bad he had to get (somehow) ensnared by this brainless witch of a character.
I wished with all my heart that I was going to come across a scene where he'd let her off somewhere and find a sweet, NON-SHALLOW, NON-JUDGMENTAL young woman who would love him with all her heart and see him for all he was on the inside, and not try to escape him every five seconds, or sell herself to him for her "freedom." Seriously, the stuff this ditz did...
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