Post by zubee on Nov 7, 2017 14:28:20 GMT -7
Hi
My first review:
Wyoming Winter
Diana Palmer has written a book which, to her, must be pretty risque
She has a formula which she faithfully follows: older cynical H and quiet, doormat h. She has not deviated from her formula here. The book is set in Wyoming but to those of us familiar with her books, fear not; she did have the h do a small stint in her favorite town of Jacobsville; that little town of drug dealers, mercenaries, tall, taciturn ranchers and Latin dancers!
This review contains spoilers
The H was suitably cynical, brooding and had both daddy and OW issues. The h was a bona fide virgin with a preacher father and a drug dealer brother. The story was suitably angsty and train wrecky, dealing with an old world trope stigma associated with living together. The setting was small town and good girls not being with a man who was not going to marry her.
The story was touching but very unbelievable and in a way, made me uncomfortable with DP promoting the concept of no sex before marriage and a girl and her father's reputation spoiled because she was living with a man, knowing he was not going to marry her. The concept of physical intimacy was treated like it was dirty thing with the h finding little pleasure with H while they were living together but when they married, she found lots of pleasure.
There is pregnancy in the book with H rejecting the h too as he doesn't want kids and her brother tells him lies about her which he swallows (her brother was a liar and dishonest but H believes her while the honest h was kicked out). She goes on to marry an old man dying of cancer (he knows and was in love with his wife; he just wants to be a father) as she wants her daughter to have a father's name. This was a blatant insult to all those single mum's out there; isn't a mother's surname good enough for a child?
The baby is not a seekrit baby as H knows where she lives and sees the baby's pictures as well as meet h and her little girl.
Little girl is 2 years old when H and h reconnect; she is psychic and this bit was so unbelievable that I was literally cringing every time the little girl opened her mouth and spouted off a little bit of the future. Wonder what she will be as she grows up. Oh, and the best part; H does not go to church but later on finds his faith and becomes a church goer ... no offense meant to anyone's religious preferences but this bit kind of grated on my nerves
DP basically used a checklist to ensure all her favorite tropes got covered here but the result is so far out there that it doesn't make sense in today's world. I am sure small towns in the USA are much more advanced compared to large cities in small countries like Fiji and even here, given that we have a patriarchal society and can be very conservative, in today's times, being a single mother is not a stigma.
But I do recommend reading this one; just for the sheer reversed culture shock and be prepared to be flabbergasted!
PS: my first review; please be gentle with me
My first review:
Wyoming Winter
Diana Palmer has written a book which, to her, must be pretty risque
She has a formula which she faithfully follows: older cynical H and quiet, doormat h. She has not deviated from her formula here. The book is set in Wyoming but to those of us familiar with her books, fear not; she did have the h do a small stint in her favorite town of Jacobsville; that little town of drug dealers, mercenaries, tall, taciturn ranchers and Latin dancers!
This review contains spoilers
The H was suitably cynical, brooding and had both daddy and OW issues. The h was a bona fide virgin with a preacher father and a drug dealer brother. The story was suitably angsty and train wrecky, dealing with an old world trope stigma associated with living together. The setting was small town and good girls not being with a man who was not going to marry her.
The story was touching but very unbelievable and in a way, made me uncomfortable with DP promoting the concept of no sex before marriage and a girl and her father's reputation spoiled because she was living with a man, knowing he was not going to marry her. The concept of physical intimacy was treated like it was dirty thing with the h finding little pleasure with H while they were living together but when they married, she found lots of pleasure.
There is pregnancy in the book with H rejecting the h too as he doesn't want kids and her brother tells him lies about her which he swallows (her brother was a liar and dishonest but H believes her while the honest h was kicked out). She goes on to marry an old man dying of cancer (he knows and was in love with his wife; he just wants to be a father) as she wants her daughter to have a father's name. This was a blatant insult to all those single mum's out there; isn't a mother's surname good enough for a child?
The baby is not a seekrit baby as H knows where she lives and sees the baby's pictures as well as meet h and her little girl.
Little girl is 2 years old when H and h reconnect; she is psychic and this bit was so unbelievable that I was literally cringing every time the little girl opened her mouth and spouted off a little bit of the future. Wonder what she will be as she grows up. Oh, and the best part; H does not go to church but later on finds his faith and becomes a church goer ... no offense meant to anyone's religious preferences but this bit kind of grated on my nerves
DP basically used a checklist to ensure all her favorite tropes got covered here but the result is so far out there that it doesn't make sense in today's world. I am sure small towns in the USA are much more advanced compared to large cities in small countries like Fiji and even here, given that we have a patriarchal society and can be very conservative, in today's times, being a single mother is not a stigma.
But I do recommend reading this one; just for the sheer reversed culture shock and be prepared to be flabbergasted!
PS: my first review; please be gentle with me
