Floating

Rating:
Summary: One star for Writing a Book
Review: "Floating" is exactly what this book is. As a native female Montanan I am offended by this author's careless representation of life in a "small ranching town." It doesn't surprise me that this book won the MTV award, since both characters are more concerned with the placement of their "hips" (see any page for the word "hip"), than with moving the story along on any deep level. They sway, they sashay, they glance and sweat a lot. This author pretends to know about horses and fires. We just spent a summer with fires all around us and unlike her character "Ruby" like the jewel! you can not see flames from seven miles away in the middle of the day, fires don't just go away, and remarkably, they don't let you hike there the first day flames are gone. What is most offensive to me about this thin story is that Robin and her editor must assume that no one reads here, west of the Mississippi. We do. Some of us even write, but more acurately than your award-winning romance novelist.

Rating:
Summary: not impressed
Review: As was previously mentioned in a previous review, I expected something a lot more impressive from MTV. However, I was not impressed with the characters or the plot. The story seemed to drag on forever without direction, and then just in the very last chapter seemed to address the issues that should have been the main portion of the book. Thank goodness I found it in a library!

Rating:
Summary: floating...not high enough
Review: I am a big fan of MTV books, but Floating lacks what most of them have, courage. This book has a slow paced story that does nothing but float...so the title was well picked. You truly feel like you are floating through the life of Ruby and it's not a very exciting ride.

The book had it's moments and it wasn't all bad by any means, but it needed more strength and courage to get me into it. You never feel very connected to the characters and you are often confused by their actions. There isn't a lot of information in the book and their no real reason it should be lacking it. I truly didn't like Ruby at all, Sean was ok, her husband you never really get to know, and her son is ok too...in fact he is the best character in the novel.

I wanted to book to be more than it was, but others might enjoy. I had too high of hopes for it and it fell a little short.

Rating:
Summary: Would Expect Something "Edgier" From MTV
Review: I recently found "Floating" set up on a special display at a bookstore. Sucked in by the gimmiky covers, that this book was the purported "winner," and relatively inexpensive price, I purchased a copy. This novel is a quick read and would be great -- If it were a short story. The floating motif works well and Robin Troy gives brilliant and vivid descriptions of the countryside and the key people populating the small town of Whitticker, Arizona. But, alas, not enough for a novel. Finally, I would have expected something a little more cutting-edge from MTV, but then MTV is not the revolutionary idea that it was when I was young. In looking at the Amazon site (which I should have checked first), I noticed Robin Troy hasn't published anything recently. If she is working on a collection of short stories, I would look forward to that, but I would recomend passing on this novel.

Rating:
Summary: One star for Writing a Book
Review: I recently found "Floating" set up on a special display at a bookstore. Sucked in by the gimmiky covers, that this book was the purported "winner," and relatively inexpensive price, I purchased a copy. This novel is a quick read and would be great -- If it were a short story. The floating motif works well and Robin Troy gives brilliant and vivid descriptions of the countryside and the key people populating the small town of Whitticker, Arizona. But, alas, not enough for a novel. Finally, I would have expected something a little more cutting-edge from MTV, but then MTV is not the revolutionary idea that it was when I was young. In looking at the Amazon site (which I should have checked first), I noticed Robin Troy hasn't published anything recently. If she is working on a collection of short stories, I would look forward to that, but I would recomend passing on this novel.

Rating:
Summary: Bootiful, bootiful, bootiful, bootiful, bootiful, boots
Review: Robin's writing gives me the warm fuzzies, ooooooh. Let her give you the warm fuzzies, toooooo. She makes me dizzy in a good way without the use of pharmaceuticals. Know what I mean? Hug me!

Rating:
Summary: Yuck!
Review: We all know that New Mexico and Arizona are warm states, but if you want to be sure, read this. The powerful descriptions of the intense heat in these places are incredible. I found myself reading slowly and getting sleepy while reading this. You can actually feel this heat the author talks about. However the storyline lacks severely. It;s a love story that is far too drawn out and ends up unresolved. Toward the second third of the book, it gets slightly interesting, but then again it slows, I felt the book moved much too slowly and the intense heat described didn't help matters much.