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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Winter Roses, 24 Mar 2008
A nice gentle story from DP but only average. Lacks some of DP's usual flair & humour.
For those trying to build up a DP library & avoid duplicates hero is Stuart York & heroine Ivy Conley. Happy reading.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
I'm going to upset a lot of DP fans with this, but this book is BORING. , 16 Nov 2007
Complete and utterly boring and predictable. Oh, and Ivy is meant to be blond, but is a brunette on the front cover, and Stuart is shown with blond hair although he's meant to have dark hair - is this a sign of the publisher starting to not really care, and allowing DP to trade on her past success? If you substitued Stuart and Ivy for any other characters from any other DP novels, you wouldn't even notice. DP has her formula, which works for many of her fans, but I think that I can no longer call myself a fan, as I found the book - sorry to repeat myself - boring and predictable. There was a lot of name-dropping as usually happens with the Jacobsville books, and again, Cara and the drugs situation (how many times has this issue been discussed and dissected in DP books already? As if some Hicksville is really going to be the centre of a major, cross-border drugs cartel, where they have 2 Sherrifs, and several of the inhabitants have DEA/Military/Police backgrounds and have never dealt with the issue) was mentioned, and the local baker turns out to be a long-time drugs dealer. And you know what, just thinking back on the book, I've just realised that Stuart and Ivy's scenes together in 2+years that the book spans, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Absolutely no chemistry or passion between them. It is clear from this book that DP will shortly be writing Sheriff Hayes Carson's romance - this guy is meant to be the law, but made an unbelievable assumption that a secondary female character (his own lead no doubt, it was pretty obvious) was the drug dealer who'd supplied the drugs that killed his little brother. It's just a no-brainer, but hey, DP needed to introduce someone who just might catch readers' attention and make them want a new book. Oh, and there's a brief mention of Harley Fowler's name, which probably means that his book will be out in the not-to-distant future too. Overall, given DP's foreword, maybe she should take her own advice and give up writing now and just stay glued to her X-Box 360.
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by Diana Palmer
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