Roan

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Summary: A modern day hero you're sure to fall in love with!
Review: I couldn't put this book down! The love story was truly touching, sweet, and comical. The author did a great job developing a strong relationship between the characters even though the surrounding circumstances were a bit unusual. The women he accidently shot while doing his duty as a sheriff ends up being the same women he falls deeply in love with. The charaters are lovable (esp. Roan), the plot is strong, and her dialoge is well written. This book gives you a good taste of what a real southern gentlemen is really like. This is one book you just have to read!

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Summary: Very Disappointed
Review: Heiress Victoria Molina-Vandergraff escaped from her kidnappers only to be shot by the local sheriff hot on their trail for robbery. Sheriff Roan Benedict is suspicious of his prisoner's story, but Tory's claim of amnesia keeps him guessing. Tory is afraid her former fiance is behind the kidnapping and doesn't think her stepfather will believe her. Continued danger from her kidnappers combines with a growing attraction to Roan and life in Turn-Coupe.

A good story, but not up to Blake's prior Turn-Coupe books. Tory caused most of her own problems, but her reasons are understandable -- at first. Then it becomes ridiculous. Blake should make her next Turn-Coupe heroine honest and forthright.

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Summary: Not up to Blake's standards.
Review: Heiress Victoria Molina-Vandergraff escaped from her kidnappers only to be shot by the local sheriff hot on their trail for robbery. Sheriff Roan Benedict is suspicious of his prisoner's story, but Tory's claim of amnesia keeps him guessing. Tory is afraid her former fiance is behind the kidnapping and doesn't think her stepfather will believe her. Continued danger from her kidnappers combines with a growing attraction to Roan and life in Turn-Coupe.

A good story, but not up to Blake's prior Turn-Coupe books. Tory caused most of her own problems, but her reasons are understandable -- at first. Then it becomes ridiculous. Blake should make her next Turn-Coupe heroine honest and forthright.

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Summary: Very Disappointed
Review: I was very disappointed in Roan. I had enjoyed both Kane and Luke and was looking forward to reading about Roan. Not only was the pace in this book slow and some of the actions unbelievable (come on, you know you're lying, he knows you're lying, you know he knows you're lying, just tell him the truth already!), but her research was both incomplete and inaccurate. Jennifer Blake goes on and on about Roan's Plymouth Super Bird, yet writes that they get in "the back door". There was not a "back" door as it was a two-door car. Were there four-door Corvettes? No, and there were never any four-door Super Birds either. This was a very obvious mistake that should not have been made. Anyone who knows anything about Chrysler products knows this. If she didn't know about these cars and couldn't do quality research, she shouldn't have written about them. For more than one reasion this book will go in my trade-in pile for my next visit to the used book store. And the next time I see a Jennifer Blake book, I will think twice about actually purchasing it.

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Summary: Roan
Review: Jennifer Blake has always written wonderful romance stories, and her Benedict series is some of her best contemporary romance. The entire Benedict family is delightful to read about, especially the ever sexy, but mannerly men, Kane, Luke and now Roan. The stories and plot lines never let you down. Even when the reader feels the match will never make, Blake pulls the hero and heroine together with steamy romance and love. Please keep going on this wonderful family....can't get enough of the Benedicts!

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Summary: Wake Me When The Story Starts
Review: The book was slow and ponderous. I was intrigued by the plot, because really, I don't think I've read a romance where the hero shoots the heroine. I wanted to see how Blake intended to write herself out of that corner.

Slowly. Very Slowly.

I tried to see the sparkage between Roan and Donna/Tory, but it didn't work for me. There was so little danger after the opening gambit, and Donna/Tory spent so much of the story bored out of her skull, that I was bored as a result. There was also the implausibility that a woman of logic and above average intelligence didn't know how to hire her own attorney and establish herself as both mentally competent and in charge of her personal affairs.

Alas, I couldn't get past such obvious things, and with Blake creating a story that's slow, languorous and syrupy, I kept reaching for the cattle prod--just to move things along.

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Summary: Wake Me When The Story Starts
Review: The book was slow and ponderous. I was intrigued by the plot, because really, I don't think I've read a romance where the hero shoots the heroine. I wanted to see how Blake intended to write herself out of that corner.

Slowly. Very Slowly.

I tried to see the sparkage between Roan and Donna/Tory, but it didn't work for me. There was so little danger after the opening gambit, and Donna/Tory spent so much of the story bored out of her skull, that I was bored as a result. There was also the implausibility that a woman of logic and above average intelligence didn't know how to hire her own attorney and establish herself as both mentally competent and in charge of her personal affairs.

Alas, I couldn't get past such obvious things, and with Blake creating a story that's slow, languorous and syrupy, I kept reaching for the cattle prod--just to move things along.

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Summary: A good read.
Review: This book can be divided into 3 sections. The first and last sections of the book moved well and had a good story. The middle really slowed down. I have read the other two books in this series and will look forward to the next one. However, there were times that I was tempted to lay it down. I got frustrated with the heroine Tory. How many different ways did she need proof that Roan was really a stand-up dependable guy. The evidence was right there in her face. I kept wanting to get on with the plot. The character of Roan was well written and I really liked him. The twist of him shooting the heroine was a nice shift in an otherwise sometimes predictable plot. I still enjoyed the book and will look forward to returning to this quaint southern town.

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Summary: A good read.
Review: This book can be divided into 3 sections. The first and last sections of the book moved well and had a good story. The middle really slowed down. I have read the other two books in this series and will look forward to the next one. However, there were times that I was tempted to lay it down. I got frustrated with the heroine Tory. How many different ways did she need proof that Roan was really a stand-up dependable guy. The evidence was right there in her face. I kept wanting to get on with the plot. The character of Roan was well written and I really liked him. The twist of him shooting the heroine was a nice shift in an otherwise sometimes predictable plot. I still enjoyed the book and will look forward to returning to this quaint southern town.

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Summary: fantastic romantic suspense
Review: Turn-Coupe, Louisiana Sheriff Roan Benedict fires at the suspect jumping from the rear of the getaway car holding a gun pointed at him. He hits the person, who turns out to be a woman claiming she is a kidnap victim. Her wrists show rope burns, but she participated with two other thugs in holding up the local convenience store, owned by a relative of the sheriff.

Victoria Molina-Vandergraff claims she does not remember her name, but that she is innocent, a kidnap victim. Tory is trying to buy herself time before figuring out how to deal with the two "companions" she dubbed Zits and Big Ears. Tory knows that her fiancé, Harrell Melanka, wants her dead because she has learned the truth about his shady dealings. She has no one to turn to for help, especially her stepfather who would probably lock her away like he did her mother. Tory is attracted to Roan and decides to stay near him for the moment. As Roan places Tory under his personal protective custody, they fall in love, but Harrell has other plans.

New York Times best-selling author, Jennifer Blake, shows why she is so popular with a fast-paced romantic suspense that will keep reader's interest from start to finish. ROAN never eases up on the throttle yet finds time to develop the lead characters so that the audience fully understands their actions. Anyone reading Ms. Blake for the first time will clearly seek out her pervious two novels in the "Louisiana Gentlemen" series, KANE and LUKE because the writer is that good.

Harriet Klausner