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Las Morenas #2
Summer Chaparral
As far as her illustrious Old California family’s concerned, no man is good enough for beautiful Catarina Moreno. She’s been obedient through all the years of waiting, but now she wants a little excitement before her inevitable spinsterhood. When a handsome American cowboy rides onto her father’s rancho, Catarina sees her chance—as long as she doesn’t get caught and dishonor her family.
Jace Merrill’s worked thirteen years to earn a ranch of his own and prove his all-too-respectable father wrong. He only needs to work a little longer on Señor Moreno’s ranch for his hard work to pay off—as long as the Señor never learns his real name, or just how hard it is for Jace to resist his alluring daughter.
When Catarina and Jace finally give in to temptation, her father catches them, and they’re marched to the altar for a shotgun wedding. But ancient vendettas run deep in Old California. There’s unfinished business between the two families, business neither Jace nor Catarina know anything about until it’s too late. Now they’re battling against a blood feud, and each other, to save a marriage neither of them wanted.
Jace Merrill’s worked thirteen years to earn a ranch of his own and prove his all-too-respectable father wrong. He only needs to work a little longer on Señor Moreno’s ranch for his hard work to pay off—as long as the Señor never learns his real name, or just how hard it is for Jace to resist his alluring daughter.
When Catarina and Jace finally give in to temptation, her father catches them, and they’re marched to the altar for a shotgun wedding. But ancient vendettas run deep in Old California. There’s unfinished business between the two families, business neither Jace nor Catarina know anything about until it’s too late. Now they’re battling against a blood feud, and each other, to save a marriage neither of them wanted.
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First published October 23, 2014
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November 13, 2014
Loved this. I used to like Westerns but fell off the wagon. Now I need to go on a Western kick, because Westerns have mustaches, and I love mustaches!! MOAR MUSTACHES PLEASE. If I had time, I'd go looking for some mustache gifs. Sweet, sweet mustache gifs.
The writing is lovely, with such gorgeous setting descriptions I wanted to weep at the beauty of it. There are family secrets and conflict and angst, but the heart of the story is a quiet romance between two finely drawn characters. I adored Catarina from start to finish. She's beautiful and vain but not spoiled or afraid of hard work. I liked the friendships between Jace and Felipe, and between Catarina and Laura. The California history and cultural details are spot on and well-researched.
A note about race issues. Jace doesn't speak Spanish and he's a real fish out of water among the Morenos and the Cahuilla Indian ranch hands. At one point he calls Catarina's father a racial slur. It's gut-wrenching and terrible and not brushed off easily. I appreciated the author's direct approach here. Too often racism is portrayed as that awful thing villains do, rather than a pervasive, widespread problem that affects us all.
The love scenes were in Jace's POV instead of Catarina's. I always notice this and feel less satisfied, as if the author is denying me a bit of female pleasure. I prefer both POVs or just the heroine's, especially when she's inexperienced.
I also would have liked a better buildup toward the ending, which seemed more like a setup for the next story than a natural conclusion to this one.
Overall an excellent book and one of the best Westerns I've ever read. I'm definitely sold on this author and this series.
5 big, fine, thick mustache stars.
The writing is lovely, with such gorgeous setting descriptions I wanted to weep at the beauty of it. There are family secrets and conflict and angst, but the heart of the story is a quiet romance between two finely drawn characters. I adored Catarina from start to finish. She's beautiful and vain but not spoiled or afraid of hard work. I liked the friendships between Jace and Felipe, and between Catarina and Laura. The California history and cultural details are spot on and well-researched.
A note about race issues. Jace doesn't speak Spanish and he's a real fish out of water among the Morenos and the Cahuilla Indian ranch hands. At one point he calls Catarina's father a racial slur. It's gut-wrenching and terrible and not brushed off easily. I appreciated the author's direct approach here. Too often racism is portrayed as that awful thing villains do, rather than a pervasive, widespread problem that affects us all.
The love scenes were in Jace's POV instead of Catarina's. I always notice this and feel less satisfied, as if the author is denying me a bit of female pleasure. I prefer both POVs or just the heroine's, especially when she's inexperienced.
I also would have liked a better buildup toward the ending, which seemed more like a setup for the next story than a natural conclusion to this one.
Overall an excellent book and one of the best Westerns I've ever read. I'm definitely sold on this author and this series.
5 big, fine, thick mustache stars.
September 28, 2016
Three stars because I really did like Jace. He was so tuned to his h, understanding her on a deeper level that I fell for him a little each time he reached out to Catarina. I loved that he was the first to overcome his fear and in good faith revealed his secrets to her. I loved that he wanted to make this marriage work, and I definitely loved that he always pictured home as being with her.
Catarina, our h, however never really clicked for me. I wanted her to be happy because she'd make Jace happy, but tbh she was a bit to manipulative to ever really warm up to me. I thought it was pretty sh!tty of her to be okay with lying and disobeying her parents when she wanted something but when it would hurt or shame her, she sided with them and against Jace with hardly any remorse or guilt.
I guess I just wanted her to be a bit more devoted to Jace, who has never been anything but a sweet, decent and hard working man. I don't like when the H/h shows such a one sided emotional pull. Jace was always the one that had to prove himself and change his ideas and dreams to fit in with her family and with her expectations. Her ideas of married life and her constant need to possess things was so childish and not what I thought a 26 year would really be like (even for this timeline.) Bottom line, there was too much push and pull from her and she was way to comfortable taking and not giving in their relationship.
It is a safe read, loved the H but the h was just okay for me in this one.
Catarina, our h, however never really clicked for me. I wanted her to be happy because she'd make Jace happy, but tbh she was a bit to manipulative to ever really warm up to me. I thought it was pretty sh!tty of her to be okay with lying and disobeying her parents when she wanted something but when it would hurt or shame her, she sided with them and against Jace with hardly any remorse or guilt.
I guess I just wanted her to be a bit more devoted to Jace, who has never been anything but a sweet, decent and hard working man. I don't like when the H/h shows such a one sided emotional pull. Jace was always the one that had to prove himself and change his ideas and dreams to fit in with her family and with her expectations. Her ideas of married life and her constant need to possess things was so childish and not what I thought a 26 year would really be like (even for this timeline.) Bottom line, there was too much push and pull from her and she was way to comfortable taking and not giving in their relationship.
It is a safe read, loved the H but the h was just okay for me in this one.
August 1, 2015
I absolutely love the style in which Turner wrote this novel. This author’s writing is the kind that allows you to connect with the story. It’s mellow and inviting, allowing the story itself to really pack a punch. I found it to be endlessly enjoyable. Turner transported me back in time, allowing me to experience life on a Californian ranch. The complexity of life in a simpler time really shone through. This story absolutely broke my heart at times, yet it also gave me hope.
The characters in this novel as well as their relationships with one another were fantastic. Not only do readers get to know the main characters and their families quite well, as if they were your neighbours, but they are also the type of individuals that you really want to get to know. The main couple definitely takes centre stage, but everyone plays an important role in the story. The trials that they have faced combine with the joys in their future. I also love the illusion to future novels in the series. I loved these characters and can’t wait to see what befalls them in the future.
This novel may not have the intensity of a suspense or pack the shocking punch like erotica, but it was mesmerizing. By the end of the first chapter I couldn’t put it down and I still can’t stop thinking about it now. This is definitely a series I’ll be following closely and I’d highly recommend it to those who enjoy well written historical romances.
Please note that I received a complimentary copy of this work in exchange for an honest review.
The characters in this novel as well as their relationships with one another were fantastic. Not only do readers get to know the main characters and their families quite well, as if they were your neighbours, but they are also the type of individuals that you really want to get to know. The main couple definitely takes centre stage, but everyone plays an important role in the story. The trials that they have faced combine with the joys in their future. I also love the illusion to future novels in the series. I loved these characters and can’t wait to see what befalls them in the future.
This novel may not have the intensity of a suspense or pack the shocking punch like erotica, but it was mesmerizing. By the end of the first chapter I couldn’t put it down and I still can’t stop thinking about it now. This is definitely a series I’ll be following closely and I’d highly recommend it to those who enjoy well written historical romances.
Please note that I received a complimentary copy of this work in exchange for an honest review.
November 24, 2014
4..5 stars
I enjoyed Summer Chaparral so much. Turner has created a beautifully detailed and genuine sense of place with Cabrillo, the Moreno ranch, and Jace's land. I could picture everything so perfectly and the imagery was descriptive in a poetic way without being overwrought. There is also a definite nice change in reading a historical novel set in California that deals with many of the issues that came from the merging of two very different cultures and expectations of people with the difficult racial tensions that came with it. I really loved both Jace and Catarina. They both have some fairly strong weaknesses in their character that cause them trouble, but they are also both honorable, strong, hard-working people. They have a great chemistry and I love the banter between them. I also appreciate how the book showed the difficulties in two people simply trying to meld their different lives and expectations into one shared existence. Their story is a snapshot of the bigger picture in California at the time. I also liked how the main conflict was revealed and dealt with. It's pretty much handled in exactly the way I've always wanted to see these types of situations handled. I'm enamored of the rest of the Moreno family now too and can not wait to read the other books in the series.
I enjoyed Summer Chaparral so much. Turner has created a beautifully detailed and genuine sense of place with Cabrillo, the Moreno ranch, and Jace's land. I could picture everything so perfectly and the imagery was descriptive in a poetic way without being overwrought. There is also a definite nice change in reading a historical novel set in California that deals with many of the issues that came from the merging of two very different cultures and expectations of people with the difficult racial tensions that came with it. I really loved both Jace and Catarina. They both have some fairly strong weaknesses in their character that cause them trouble, but they are also both honorable, strong, hard-working people. They have a great chemistry and I love the banter between them. I also appreciate how the book showed the difficulties in two people simply trying to meld their different lives and expectations into one shared existence. Their story is a snapshot of the bigger picture in California at the time. I also liked how the main conflict was revealed and dealt with. It's pretty much handled in exactly the way I've always wanted to see these types of situations handled. I'm enamored of the rest of the Moreno family now too and can not wait to read the other books in the series.
October 22, 2014
Like any good daughter from a respectable Old Californian family, the beautiful and exotic looking, Catarina Moreno does all her mother and father want of her. She helps her mother run the ranch, but yearns for a home of her own. Time is passing and Catarina still hasn't made a match, for no one is good enough for her and her family make that well known. Even though one of her younger sisters has made a decent match, still no one lives up to the standards for Catarina.
When American cowboy, Jake Merrill rides into town, Catarina catches his eye immediately and cause a stir that makes the town wonder if Catarina is as respectable as they thought she was. From the looks of the handsome cowboy, he is as interested in her as she is in him and a cat and mouse game is about to begin between them that will make the very air sizzle around them.
Jake Merrill left home over a decade before after realizing his dreams and his family's dreams for him were not the same and Jake will spend his life proving to his overbearing father he can be his own man. He knows that Catarina should be off limits to him, but the awareness they have of one another is building and when Catarina's father finds them in a compromising position, he begrudgingly demands the two marry to save her reputation and that of her family.
Hanging over both Jake's and Catarina's heads however is a long standing feud between Jake's and Catarina's family that has the ability to make or break all involved. Can the passion and want they have for one another overcome the feud that once brought to light cause them to either take sides or stand alone? Neither Jake or Catarina were directly involved with the horrors of their family's pasts, but the long standing ill feelings have the power to tear them apart.
Summer Chaparral by Genevieve Turner is an epic in the making. I thoroughly enjoyed Jake Merrill fall for all Catarina's innocent charms, and loved seeing Catarina become her own woman, aside from being the Moreno's daughter. I loved bringing in the Old Californian history and culture that I have not often seen depicted in books. It's unique quality makes Summer Chaparral a must read for lovers of Western Historical Romance and I look forward to more from the very talented Genevieve Turner in what I hope is the near future.
~KIMBERLY~
January 2, 2015
I loved this book to pieces. This is one of the best books I read in 2014. I live about 60 miles west of the San Jacinto mountains, which likely makes for a bias in favor of the book. I loved the characters (especially Franny), but it was Turner's deft use of place that truly shone. Catarina walking among her peach trees, Jace riding through the sage, each in love with and nourished by the setting. And, for me, that setting evoked both a familiarity and a sense of loss. I grew up not far from the Rancho Alvarado, in a valley that used to be citrus groves but became an endless sea of subdivisions and cheap houses. The heartache and loss of the dispersed Alvarados resonates off the page.
But, you know, the book is more than just a setting. Taking cues from Shakespeare, Turner gives us a story of the (not so) star cross'd children of two warring houses. In order to fight their way to love and happily ever after, these two must sift through their families' histories (the spoken and the unspoken) and the history of their time and place, including the systemic racism that pervades this corner of the world (and is, I'm sad to say, still going strong 120 years later). While Romeo and Juliet establishes an untold (and not that important) ancient grievance that sets the Montagues and Capulets at odds, Turner gives us the history of the rift between the Bannisters and the Alvarados, and the latter are undeniably the more sympathetic party. To balance it out and give Jace some wariness, he bears an incomplete version of the old grievance with a hearty dose of racism to boot. Catarina and Jace must learn to know and love each other as individuals rather than labels, to reconcile and repair, to move forward while acknowledging the power and tangibility of the past. It is beautifully handled.
I'm not sure that I'm doing such a great job conveying what a joy this book is to read. It never strays too far from reality, but it shows the beauty as well as the grit. It shows forgiveness and goodness, generosity and hospitality, as well as resentment, fear, littleness of spirit, and evil. And, in the end, when understanding and love triumph, it reinforces the hope (and my belief) that a happy ending is not a fantasy.
Just read it. It's really good.
But, you know, the book is more than just a setting. Taking cues from Shakespeare, Turner gives us a story of the (not so) star cross'd children of two warring houses. In order to fight their way to love and happily ever after, these two must sift through their families' histories (the spoken and the unspoken) and the history of their time and place, including the systemic racism that pervades this corner of the world (and is, I'm sad to say, still going strong 120 years later). While Romeo and Juliet establishes an untold (and not that important) ancient grievance that sets the Montagues and Capulets at odds, Turner gives us the history of the rift between the Bannisters and the Alvarados, and the latter are undeniably the more sympathetic party. To balance it out and give Jace some wariness, he bears an incomplete version of the old grievance with a hearty dose of racism to boot. Catarina and Jace must learn to know and love each other as individuals rather than labels, to reconcile and repair, to move forward while acknowledging the power and tangibility of the past. It is beautifully handled.
I'm not sure that I'm doing such a great job conveying what a joy this book is to read. It never strays too far from reality, but it shows the beauty as well as the grit. It shows forgiveness and goodness, generosity and hospitality, as well as resentment, fear, littleness of spirit, and evil. And, in the end, when understanding and love triumph, it reinforces the hope (and my belief) that a happy ending is not a fantasy.
Just read it. It's really good.
December 9, 2014
I had a hard time getting into this book at first, but it really picked up the second half.
We have Jason, who wants to own a ranch of his own, and Catarina, who wants to run a household of her own but is stuck in her current situation because she didn't want to stand up to her parents.
Their families have a long-standing feud, only neither realizes it at first. Jace hides who he actually is, and continues to do so after he realizes who Catarina's family is.
I liked Jace. He went after what he wanted, but he had a conscious about it, eventually coming clean to Catarina. I wasn't crazy about Catarina. She seemed to do only what was expected of her instead of standing up for what's right. Even when her father basically mocked their relationship by providing them sickly cattle, she still didn't confront him about how unfair that was to her. He may have been mad at Jace, but he didn't have to do something that would hurt his daughter.
I loved Catarina's sister, Franny. She was feisty and independent, not letting anyone walk all over her. Her other sister, Isabel, comes across as stuck up, but it seems like she's really just as unhappy as Catarina and going along with the flow as to not upset her parents.
I'm interested enough to see if Sebastian can find Isabel's attacker that I would consider reading the second book in the series when it's released.
**A free copy was provided by the author via LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review**
We have Jason, who wants to own a ranch of his own, and Catarina, who wants to run a household of her own but is stuck in her current situation because she didn't want to stand up to her parents.
Their families have a long-standing feud, only neither realizes it at first. Jace hides who he actually is, and continues to do so after he realizes who Catarina's family is.
I liked Jace. He went after what he wanted, but he had a conscious about it, eventually coming clean to Catarina. I wasn't crazy about Catarina. She seemed to do only what was expected of her instead of standing up for what's right. Even when her father basically mocked their relationship by providing them sickly cattle, she still didn't confront him about how unfair that was to her. He may have been mad at Jace, but he didn't have to do something that would hurt his daughter.
I loved Catarina's sister, Franny. She was feisty and independent, not letting anyone walk all over her. Her other sister, Isabel, comes across as stuck up, but it seems like she's really just as unhappy as Catarina and going along with the flow as to not upset her parents.
I'm interested enough to see if Sebastian can find Isabel's attacker that I would consider reading the second book in the series when it's released.
**A free copy was provided by the author via LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review**
August 21, 2016
Rating: 3.5 / 5
See that cover? Of that muscled chest showcased along with brooding smile? Well, it's misleading, in my opinion, because this book offers much more than a hot guy with a cowboy hat.
What I got from this story was emotion. I don't know about you, but I rarely find a book that makes me feel strongly along with the character. In this case, I felt every bit of anguish Jace went through. I felt the conflict, the tension, the guilt... It was really something.
Even Catarina suffered a transformation throughout the story, she matured, she got over her girlish need of attention and compliments. I liked that, although I would've liked the change to have been written a bit more strongly. But maybe that's just me.
The reason this hasn't got 4 stars is because the writing sometimes failed to keep my attention (personal fault, I suppose). Otherwise, I really enjoyed it. Don't mind the hunk on the cover, the story has much more to offer than that. It's got old families' pride, racial conflict, young people maturing and beginning to think for themselves, to grow outside the mold their families set for them.
I quite enjoyed it :)
See that cover? Of that muscled chest showcased along with brooding smile? Well, it's misleading, in my opinion, because this book offers much more than a hot guy with a cowboy hat.
What I got from this story was emotion. I don't know about you, but I rarely find a book that makes me feel strongly along with the character. In this case, I felt every bit of anguish Jace went through. I felt the conflict, the tension, the guilt... It was really something.
Even Catarina suffered a transformation throughout the story, she matured, she got over her girlish need of attention and compliments. I liked that, although I would've liked the change to have been written a bit more strongly. But maybe that's just me.
The reason this hasn't got 4 stars is because the writing sometimes failed to keep my attention (personal fault, I suppose). Otherwise, I really enjoyed it. Don't mind the hunk on the cover, the story has much more to offer than that. It's got old families' pride, racial conflict, young people maturing and beginning to think for themselves, to grow outside the mold their families set for them.
I quite enjoyed it :)
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May 11, 2016DNF at 6%.
October 8, 2017
Boring
I didn't find anything exciting about this book. It failed turn holds my interest. Not sure I like d tithe way nationalities were played against each other .
I didn't find anything exciting about this book. It failed turn holds my interest. Not sure I like d tithe way nationalities were played against each other .
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August 7, 2024DNF at 16%
I was so excited when I learned Turner’s historical romance series are connected to her contemporary romance series. I almost started Autumn Sage after I read Forever a Soldier because of the ancestral connection there but ultimately decided to finish the contemporary series before coming back around to the historicals. And while the content of this didn’t work for me, I’m still looking forward to Autumn Sage and the rest of this series.
You know, I’m sure this is ultimately a perfectly fine story. I just don’t have the patience for it right now. It’s hard for me to take Catarina and Jace seriously. She’s all femme fatale batting her eyelashes and mooning about how much she wants to have her own home and children. Meanwhile, he’s trying to be the loner ranchero but they’re terrible at staying away or hiding their feelings for each other. Her parents are caricatures in their strictness and their choice to keep her a spinster but marry off her younger sister makes no sense. Similarly, if Jace is so set on getting a wife before he’s even bought his farm, Catarina is right there! They both protest too much and I'm over it.
I also didn't like the author's choice to depict Jace thinking about the racism and racial slurs his bigoted grandfather spouted when he was growing up. He's not even there! Were there a lot of white people who believed the same thing? Yes, but none of them are on page (at least up to where I read) and I'm not sure how those recollections add to the story.
Characters: Jace is a 28 year old white ranchero. Catarina is a 26 year old Californio homemaker. This is set in 1898 Cabrillo, CA.
Content notes: past sexual assault , MMC recounts racist and anti-Indigenous slurs and sentiments MMC’s bigoted grandfather hold him, slut-shaming, past death of secondary character’s family (diptheria), past enslavement (secondary character), pregnant secondary character, vomit, MMC left home at 15, alcohol, inebriation, ableist language
*Love it or Leighve it* (aka cleaning out my Kindle)
Purchased: 2021
I was so excited when I learned Turner’s historical romance series are connected to her contemporary romance series. I almost started Autumn Sage after I read Forever a Soldier because of the ancestral connection there but ultimately decided to finish the contemporary series before coming back around to the historicals. And while the content of this didn’t work for me, I’m still looking forward to Autumn Sage and the rest of this series.
You know, I’m sure this is ultimately a perfectly fine story. I just don’t have the patience for it right now. It’s hard for me to take Catarina and Jace seriously. She’s all femme fatale batting her eyelashes and mooning about how much she wants to have her own home and children. Meanwhile, he’s trying to be the loner ranchero but they’re terrible at staying away or hiding their feelings for each other. Her parents are caricatures in their strictness and their choice to keep her a spinster but marry off her younger sister makes no sense. Similarly, if Jace is so set on getting a wife before he’s even bought his farm, Catarina is right there! They both protest too much and I'm over it.
I also didn't like the author's choice to depict Jace thinking about the racism and racial slurs his bigoted grandfather spouted when he was growing up. He's not even there! Were there a lot of white people who believed the same thing? Yes, but none of them are on page (at least up to where I read) and I'm not sure how those recollections add to the story.
Characters: Jace is a 28 year old white ranchero. Catarina is a 26 year old Californio homemaker. This is set in 1898 Cabrillo, CA.
Content notes: past sexual assault , MMC recounts racist and anti-Indigenous slurs and sentiments MMC’s bigoted grandfather hold him, slut-shaming, past death of secondary character’s family (diptheria), past enslavement (secondary character), pregnant secondary character, vomit, MMC left home at 15, alcohol, inebriation, ableist language
*Love it or Leighve it* (aka cleaning out my Kindle)
Purchased: 2021
April 18, 2020
I enjoyed this book very much. I enjoyed it so much that I bought the next book in the series, “Autumn Sage.” One of the things I liked most is the end was not entirely predictable. Normally in romance books with the exception of purposely written cliffhangers all of the loose ends are wrapped up very nicely. This book ends well and I enjoyed how this book ended; and there is no cliffhanger. What happens in the end that I didn’t expect is what happened to the bad guy; and the main character Jace Merrill wasn’t able to keep the last promise he made to Catarina Moreno no matter how much he wanted to. Those two aspects of the story were unexpected and made reading the book more enjoyable. Also one of the themes I enjoyed about the book is the issues that Jace and Catarina had to face in their marriage not just the issue of Jace being a “Bannister” but dealing with their cultural differences. I enjoyed the characters in the book and felt they were well developed. Not only did I enjoy Jace and Catarina but I also enjoyed Catarina’s sisters and especially her Father and Mother, Ramon Moreno and Maria Dolores Alvarado Jaramillo de Moreno. There is some profanity and some love scenes in the story but they were not over the top and in no way affected the telling of the story. It also didn’t take up very much space in the overall all storyline.
September 6, 2022
Although I tried, I couldn't make it past the first one hundred pages. Catarina Moreno is a California-Mexican flirt (a worn-out trope). Her family owns a large rancho, and the siblings constantly squabble. Since Catrina is alluring, one wonders why she's unmarried.
Jace Merrill carries a lot of baggage and bitterness against his family. He's a hard worker but thinks it's time for him to start his own ranch.
I just couldn't get interested in this story or these uninteresting characters.
Jace Merrill carries a lot of baggage and bitterness against his family. He's a hard worker but thinks it's time for him to start his own ranch.
I just couldn't get interested in this story or these uninteresting characters.
May 20, 2017
This is a very good book, and I enjoyed it very much. It has an awesome story, and great characters. The only thing I have against the book is that the author left some story threads hanging at the very end, and the end didn't have a very conclusive feeling to it. But yet, it is a good read.
February 12, 2018
There were enough turns and twists in this story to keep it interesting, while keeping the reader in the dark about most things history. Perhaps because it is part two. A book to be read in series, as part three promises to be interesting.
February 21, 2018
Read for book club.
Ok, final verdict:
1) dude needs to STOP ripping her clothes unless he's going to become the family seamstress;
2) I can't help but feel like she was straight-woman settling, he got better but ehhhhh;
3) I am, however totally interested in reading the next one.
Ok, final verdict:
1) dude needs to STOP ripping her clothes unless he's going to become the family seamstress;
2) I can't help but feel like she was straight-woman settling, he got better but ehhhhh;
3) I am, however totally interested in reading the next one.
February 18, 2022
Good book
This is a pretty good book, I, usually, don't like stories where the characters try to find reasons not to love each other but this book handled it differently and was a good read.
This is a pretty good book, I, usually, don't like stories where the characters try to find reasons not to love each other but this book handled it differently and was a good read.
June 2, 2022
Very slow to start but finally picked up and then really enjoyed it.
It gave us the chance to see how the Mexican American people lived and did not want to integrate with the other Americans as in most races when they first migrate.
Stay true to the home land.
It gave us the chance to see how the Mexican American people lived and did not want to integrate with the other Americans as in most races when they first migrate.
Stay true to the home land.
March 11, 2023
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He’s looking for a job and a place to buy a ranch. She’s beautiful but not for him. But they are drawn to each other, caught kissing and the forced to marry. But he has a secret that can destroy them.
He’s looking for a job and a place to buy a ranch. She’s beautiful but not for him. But they are drawn to each other, caught kissing and the forced to marry. But he has a secret that can destroy them.
October 5, 2017
Excellent.
December 17, 2017
Excellent
February 13, 2018
It is a great book to read
April 7, 2019
My first book by this author and I really enjoyed it. Jace and Catarina's story is a great story with lots of depth.
I received this book for free but voluntarily leave my review.
I received this book for free but voluntarily leave my review.
November 13, 2019
I've had this book on my "Too Read" shelf for much too long. It was a good read and now I need to find the rest of the series.
April 28, 2020
This was a fun read with some historical flavor.
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November 1, 2023
Showing up
Showing up is the first step to all new beginnings. You'll find that and so much more within this book.
Showing up is the first step to all new beginnings. You'll find that and so much more within this book.
May 18, 2024
This is an interesting story and part of a continuing series. The ending leads into the next book. The characters have depth and a lot of family drama to deal with.
September 4, 2024
A little slow to begin but worth persevering. Now I want to read the next one.
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