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Title: Into the Sunset
ISBN: 0440225183
Author:
Shelly Thacker
Publicate Date: 1999-04-11
Publish: 1999-04-11
List Price: $6.50
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: A Great Read.
One of the greatest pleasures in reading is finding a new author who simply oozes talent. Shelly Thacker's INTO THE SUNSET is captivating from start to finish and if this is any indication of this author's storytelling ability, then I plan to read a great deal more from Ms. Thacker!
Mini Synopsis:
The Heroine - Annie Sutton is a genuinely good person. She readily offers a quick smile and a tender heart. Which is remarkable, because most of her life, Annie has felt like a fish out of water, but now the people of Eminence, Colorado are offering friendship and protection. And for the first time, Annie begins to feel at home! Difficult to understand? Not really! For Annie Sutton is a generous, admirable and caring person. Still, the question remains: has this former rich man's mistress found true acceptance or will the good people of Eminence turn their backs once they learn of her devastating background?
The Hero - U.S. Marshall Lucas McKenna is a dangerous man who chafes under the prejudice the good folks of Eminence show toward him. Yet, much more annoying are the unfamiliar sensations Antoinette Sutton pulls from him! For the first time in his life, Lucas McKenna is experiencing troubling feelings toward a prisoner! What is wrong with him? What has happened to his judgment? The woman HAS confessed! She has confessed to shooting his brother; she has confused to stealing his brother's money; she has even confessed to a baby - his brother's baby! In Lucas' mind, there is no doubt, Antoinette Sutton is immoral, contemptible and guilty, yet in Lucas' heart, Annie Sutton is courageous, honorable, and very innocent!
Reviewer's Comments:
There are many, many good things in Shelly Thacker's book. First of all, Lucas and Annie are two very enjoyable characters. Annie jumps from the pages as a lovely young woman, who is genuinely distressed over the mayhem her former lifestyle packs. And U.S. Marshal Lucas McKenna appears to be a good lawman, a lawman who doesn't know quite what to do with his prisoner or with his growing masculine feelings! Some good sexual tension crackles between the two, further heightened by the occasional reference to Annie's 'fancy woman' background. And this makes for delightful reading!
So why the slip from this reviewer's PERFECT grade? Although Thacker's dramatic climax is wonderful, it played out a little too tidy or maybe a little too forced! Still in the end, every character got their just dues and for that I was in total agreement! Conclusion: INTO THE SUNSET is a fabulous romance that's as captivating as it is tender. If you find a copy, do buy it, and read it . . . allow Shelly Thacker to steal your heart.
Status: Worth Reading Again
Grade: A-
Sensuality: Tender
MaryGrace Meloche.
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2: A very enjoyable historical western romance. Recommended
From the back cover:
Into his arms...
The moment she saw him she ran, desperate to escape. But he found her. U.S. Marshal Lucas McKenna made it clear his interest in Annie Sutton was very personal: he'd come to arrest her for the murder of his brother. Annie was at his mercy, trapped in a snowbound Colorado town, imprisoned in a makeshift jail until he could take her back to justice. She never expected to find love in the arms of a lawman determined to see her hang...
Into his heart...
Lucas McKenna, the msot feared lawman in the West, finally captured his brother's killer--only to feel trapped himself, tormented by her nearness, the feel of her in his arms, the scent of her hair. She said the killing was an accident. He couldn't afford to believe her. Yet as the winter passed, she slowly got under his skin, make him know her, set his heart afire. Until he had to decide: to lose his reputation and let her escape, or bring her to justice and risk losing her for good...
And my review:
This was a very enjoyable book. While it wasn't a can't-put-it-down, I still recommend it.
Thacker has a talent for creating loveable characters. They are true-to-life, honorable people, yet still somewhat flawed. They're human. Not gods, and not unlikeable, either. They're people you can relate to. I expected not to like Annie, given the fact that she had lived for three years as a married man's mistress. I should have hated her, yet somehow that was impossible. I couldn't help but love her.
The small-town thing was also well done in this book. This story had so many loveable characters in it. The townspeople were not paragons of saintly virtue, just real, human people that you would be happy to know.
The romance in this book was well done, and left me with that "warm glow" that romance readers crave. Yes, this book had its dark moments, but they never overwhelmed the story. And I really like the fact that the attraction between the characters was based on something more substantial than sexual chemistry. That is so rare in the lust-soaked world of romance today. Not that the hero and heroine weren't physically attracted to each other. They were, but it was in its proper place. The love came first, and the sexual attraction was an added bonus. That's just as it should be.
This story never got boring, yet it didn't feel like it was all plot, either. Fans of western romance (and even those who might not like it as much as other historical periods) will enjoy this book. I don't recommend many books (I consider myself a very hard sell), but I would recommend INTO THE SUNSET to all romance readers. I would also recommend the book HIS FORBIDDEN TOUCH by the same author, which is a five-star read.
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3: A different story line, very creative and good writing.
Its an enjoyable story about a women(mistress) who kills her lover and his marshall brother who chases her down. The heroine of the piece comes from a less than ladylike background and bemoans the "i'm nothing, nobody likes me" line much longer than I cared for. In all fairness she is a goodhearted soul who proves to have backbone and eventually stands up for herself.
Lucas, our hero, is full of the "I am god" syndrome.......he gets to know annie and eventually sees thru her goodness that she must be innocent. He than puts hit macho determined "bring her to justice" attitude into the same effort to save her. The cute little town of eminence, col with all its good hearted busybodies is a delight. The 2-3 loves scenes were pretty brief and superficial. I rate a book according to whether I would read it a second time. I had to rate this low because although I enjoyed it, once was enough.
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4: Never got boring
If you can get past the fact that Annie was first the mistress of Lucas' brother James and then fell for him (Lucas), then you are golden. Annie running from the law after killing James is being pursued by Lucas, James' brother who is also a Marshall. He catches up with her in a small town where many have secrets but who seem to accept Annie as one of their own (well most of them anyway), even after they learn her painful secrets. James sets up a jail in the town to await the end of the snow and keeps her his prisoner. Much to his dismay he finds himself wildly attracted to this brother killer. It's a great story with a great ending. At first I didn't think there was any way this young lady was going to be able to explain what happened and still be innocent but that's probably why I'm not the writer... A must read for anyone who likes Marshalls in small towns and the woman they try to protect.
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5: Wonderfully Unusual!
I have just finished reading INTO THE SUNSET and found it a book hard to put down. The plot-story line is so different than the "usual" historical romance a refreshing change! I highly recommend this book. It is my first book written by Ms. Thacker, needless to say, I am ceertainly going to read more of her writings.
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