I've been on an American Western historical kick lately, so I've been looking for books in that genre. I like Sandra Brown's suspense romance books, so I thought I'd give this one a try. What a mistake!
First of all, I've read the Wheel of Time books, but Ms. Brown has nothing on Robert Jordan when it comes to mentioning breasts. Yes, the heroine Lydia is a wet nurse, but it seemed like every paragraph had a mention of her prominent breasts, yearning nipples, etc. She makes Mr. Jordan look like a novice when he only mentions pushing arms under her breasts instead of 'impudent nipples.'
The story itself is pretty weak. Ross, the hero, is pretty unlikeable throughout the book, and poor Lydia needs some severe counseling in dealing with him. She's a rape victim who's abused again and again - just ugh. The rest of the characters on the wagon train are pretty banal, and the villain is just a caricature of evil.
This is not a book I'd recommend at all. ( )

This was recommended to me but about 75 pages in I realized that the hero in this book dies in the next one which I had already read. That just sucked the fun right out of this one. I think in romance novels there is a covenant that exists between author and reader and that is the sacredness of the happy ever after. In regular fiction anything goes but in romance, a hero/heroine should never be killed off no matter how many books later unless you are writing a totally separate story about their descendants 300 years later.

Historical takes place on a wagon train going west. She has had a baby who died and his wife died in childbirth and she nurses his baby. ( )

Durante un viaje en caravana, muere al dar a luz la mujer de Ross, y Buba y Luke (los hijos de una familia que viaja en esa caravana) encuentra a una mujer que está dando a luz. Se lleva a la mujer al campamento y su madre se encarga de cuidarla. El niño nace muerto. Cuando comienza a recuperarse, mama Langston (la madre de Buba y Luke) propone a Lydia amamantar al hijo de Cole, ya que la mujer de Cole murió al dar a luz y Lydia acababa de tener un hijo aunque estuviera muerto ella tenía suficiente leche como para poder criarlo.
Pese a la oposición de los puritanos de la caravana, Lydia va al carromato de Cole para encargarse del crío, aunque Cole se resiste puesto que piensa que Lydia es una prostituta ya que de otra forma no habría tenido un hijo sin estar casada. Pese a toda esta animadversión surge una pasión descontrolada entre ellos, aunque aderezada con los secretos del pasado que ambos tratan de ocultar.

Typical early contemporary Brown. The characters make or break her books. ( )

A Really Good Historical Western romance.Caution: Tear-Jerker *sob-sob*Recommended!! ( )