Review: He's My Cowboy

He's My Cowboy by Diana Palmer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Overall, a low three stars, I only requested it for the Rebecca Zanetti book.

THE HAWK’S SHADOW * Diana Palmer
Two and a half stars.

Gil is a new sheriff's investigator. When construction workers find a long-buried body near a burst water pipe he calls in someone from the state crime lab. At first their relationship is abrasive but soon they find they have more in common than most, but is it too much too soon?

Nemara finds it difficult to make friends, her family connections mean people always want her to get them to do favours for them, and her prickly demeanour puts people off.

This was okay, although I'm past being irritated by a man and a woman having exactly the same likes and dislikes and yet he is seen as a desirable mate whereas everyone thinks she's an oddball. Unfortunately, we didn't stop there. Nemara is a virgin (or course she is eyeroll) and has spooky powers which allow her to 'know' what happened to their corpse, but of course she can't tell anyone because it isn't proper policework!

Basically, anyone with any iota of common-sense could tell who had 'killed' their victim right from the start.

RESCUE: RANCHER STYLE * Rebecca Zanetti
Three stars.

Tara is a widow and a high school English teacher. Greg was her high school sweetheart and first love, until he dumped her and joined the Marines. Now he's back in town to care for his older brother's children and ranch after his brother's death. When his brother's second wife tries to get custody of the children (for their half of the ranch) she slings a lot of dirt, which seems to be sticking, until Greg's niece Hannah announces to the judge that Tara (a character witness) and Greg are engaged to be married. Now the senile old judge has married the two of them off and they have to live together for two months until the judge determines that Greg is a fit person to bring up three teenagers.

This has suspense, second chance romance, and what seems to be a wider arc - I must look out for this Cattle Club and see if there is another series.

Unfortunately, and this is the reason for the three star review, Greg insists his way is best with Tara and the children. He gives them all orders, won't listen to advice and basically insists its his way or the highway. And he doesn't learn the error of his ways. I'm over men who think they rule the world and its verging on controlling, do this, don't do that, stay here, etc.

A COWBOY KIND OF ROMANCE * Delores Fossen
2 stars.

A couple who broke up when he chose rodeo over her are reunited by interfering family and friends years later. He's had to retire after a nasty injury and she's just finished a stint in the military police. Their families and the entire small town are scheming to get them back together in the most juvenile ways possible - using their prom picture (without permission), doctoring it, and then plastering it on huge billboards around town to promote it as a romantic town for one example. To make it worse, his brother and her sister are getting married and forcing the two of them to do most of the heavy lifting.

This just felt juvenile from start to finish: the inability to stop accidentally kissing, I've read tweenager books with less accidental kissing; the ghastly families who are forcing them together; the lack of an actual plot.

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