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Title: Deep As the Rivers
ISBN: 0312960115
Author:
Shirl Henke
Publicate Date: 1997-03
Publish: 1997-03
List Price: $6.50
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Enjoyable Read
Henke has written a wonderful story for those who love historical romance. The book was easy to read for me because the characterizations and the scenes are so well painted. I had put off reading this book while I read more familiar authors but now I will read her books as I come across them. There was mystery, sensuality that stoked my imagination, and romance. Yes Shelby and Olivia fight alot. Neither of them really know how to love. They learn. The intrigue is wonderful. I read the book in a day because I had to know the ending. Ms. Henke gave me an ending that made sense and satisfied. I recommend this for a great read. In the end, I wished I knew more about that time in history so that the book would have been more real for me but then perhaps my unfamiliarity with the period fed my hunger to get to the end. If you like to travel away from your present circumstance and you want a little sexy spice in your novel, read it and enjoy.
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2: Sex? Yes. Romance? Not so much.
From the back cover:
Deep as a frontier sky...
With the Mississippi beckoning, Colonel Samuel Shelby is eager for his mission: making peace with the fierce Osage Indians. He is certain the task will prove easier than making peace with his faithless wife. The dangerous wilderness seems a welcom refuge...until he meets beautiful, headstrong Olivia St. Etienne...
Deep as the passons that rule them...
When the fire-haired Olivia discovers that her guardian plans to sell her as a misstress to the darkly handsome colonel whom she dreamed would marry her, the heartsick girl feels, only to be cast unwillingly into his arms.
Together, Olivia and Samuel must survive the savage wilderness, engaged in a battle of wills which both vow to win, but when both are fated to lose. From ballrooms along the Potomac to Osage lodges on the Missouri, from rowdy St. Louis down the mighty Mississippi to elegant New Orleans, the lovers discover a passion as wild, as turbulent, and as deep as the rivers.
And my review:
This sticks to that standard Henke formula: who needs to put romance in a romance novel when you can just stuff it full of sex scenes? Ugh. I need more than just flying hormones pulling the characters together.
Also, this author's writing style is not flowing or easy to read. She head hops all the time, and tries to stuff the book was so many story lines that the reader gets confused. And of course, the characters are falling into bed every two mintues. Don't bother.
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