The Texas Ranger

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Summary: DREADFUL, DULL, and DRAGGED-OUT
Review: DO NOT bother to pick up this book; not even if you find it for half-price. It's not worth it. I've read several Diana Palmer novels and have been both thrilled and underwhelmed. However, this is the first time I've been downright disgusted. The only thing that caught my interest was the interpersonal conflict between the two main characters. They had a pretty rocky past and I kept thinking there had to be some sort of gruellingly emotional grovelling scene to look forward to. But NOPE!! This poor, traumatized gal just melts in the arms of her suddenly well-intentioned neanderthal and all is forgiven with a couple of "sorry about thats." The murder mystery is more transparent than the sexiest of lingerie! I knew who the killer was immediately upon introduction. I hoped for some twist that would make things more interesting, but again...NOPE! Predictable predictable. Plot exposition is so clunkily handled it's incredible. Characters have fruitless discussions with each other about facts they both know solely to clue the reader in. And out of nowhere come these apparent plugs for other books. Little plot summaries that have nothing to do with the current action. Palmer obviously did a great deal of research on the Texas Rangers and other Texas Government institutions because she just can't resist throwing in lame factoids everywhere. Did you know there are only about 107 acting TRs in the whole state of Texas? Do you care?? Even if you do, you still won't like this book!

Rating:
Summary: boring and a waste of money
Review: i am a major diana palmer fan but i am beginning to wonder if someone else is writing under her name. this book and the one previous were both boring, predictable and a waste of money.maybe she has become so popular she doesn't care what she writes about as long as she gets paid. also who is editing these books?? the error ratio is horrendeous. i feel like blue penciling the book myself and mailing it back to publisher!!

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Summary: Diana Palmer Mystery
Review: I enjoy the premise of the novel. Even thought I pretty much knew who the murderers were. I still enjoy it. The only thing I didn't like because constant conflict between Josette and Marc. She already knew in her heart she forgive him and knew she want him. It was so distracting to the storyline the constant conflict but it was good.

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Summary: Diana Palmer Mystery
Review: I have been an avid Diana Palmer fan for many years and will continue to be one. I read some of the other reviews on this book and am writing this review because I do not agree with most of them. This book was definitely different than Ms. Palmer's usual, but I found it most enjoyable. I look forward to reading her next one.

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Summary: Not The Best
Review: I love Diana Palmer's books so when I read this book I thought that I would be in for a easy reading book with great character compatibility, but this book fell slightly short. I felt that the heroine in this story was a little too unbelieveable. Especially with the way that Ms. Palmer required her to have surgery before she could be intimate. I thought that it was a little drastic way to keep her from being intimate. I just found some of the situations being unbelievable. If you are looking for a great easy read this is not the book you want as your first choice.

Rating:
Summary: A Good Read
Review: I read the negative reviews for this novel before I even picked it up to read it myself and must say I was surprised. It was not the dull, dreadful book that many people thought it was. In my opionion the characters were likable and the chemistry between Brannon and Josette was very powerful. As an avid Diana Palmer reader and fan, I will admit this book was not her best, but then again definately not her worst. Overall I would reccommend this book to you!

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Summary: A Wonderful Read
Review: I've ordered and read many many books being the book-worm that I am, however I am also a LAZY book-worm and therefore have not actually ever mustered up the strength to come on here and write a review. I read a lot of the reviews on here though I must admit. I didn't read any reviews prior to reading this book by the way. I have been a long time Diana Palmer fan, and have really enjoyed many of her past books. This book FORCED me to come on here and throw away the cloak of laziness and WARN you DO NOT GET THIS BOOK IT STINKS! I really hope Diana Palmer does not come on here and read these reviews because I would hate to hurt her feelings (that is if this type of thing gets to her) but I do want to express my opinion. Boring, very plodding and slow and I found myself walking away often and forcing myself to go back and read, since I was SURE that at some point it HAD to get better after all it's Diana Palmer....right? wrong Predictable, I figured out REAL quickly who the killer was and was hoping and hoping that she had put in a false tease and that truly it would be someone else and I would say HA! good fool there Diana! but noooooooooooo Mistakes, it really bugs me when I run into so many mis-spelled words and grammatical mistakes as it distracts me from the book and in this case considering the book was awful it REALLY ANNOYED THE HECK OUT ME. Characters, I thought this guy, the leading male so to speak, was a TOTAL JERK for the most part ok? I know Diana likes to mold her men after a sort of throwback but this guy was too much, and he said and did many things where I really think most women would have turned around and said to him, who the HECK do you think you are buddy? and hey buddy I am NOT so quick to forgive and forget and don't you DARE get annoyed with me for dragging my feet getting back into this STINKING relationship with you as for the leading lady, she just didn't do it for me so to speak, I just didn't connect with her, and I really did think she was a little to quick to forgive and forget. Annoying things, ok, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE that whole minor surgery, virgin thing is absolutely ridiculous ok??? and every time I read that I sort of wince and roll my eyes and Diana please just spare us...ok? oh and by the way, if he did that to me that whole walking away thing I'd make him freaking grovel before I would ever let him back into my bedroom.... One thing I noticed, ok maybe this is just me but there were a few times in the book where I felt the heroine took on some of Diana Palmer's physical attributes and it sort of really distracted me from the boring, meandering, annoying plot several times, things such as; -wearing contact lenses not possible has to wear wire rimmed glasses which make her large brown eyes blah blah blah -oh I'm tired I can't remember what else but there were things like that I really want to go back to the place where I would look forward to a new Diana Palmer book and it makes me sad that she's really lost me this time....it started after the "Paris" book and this just really was the topping on the spinach cake, if you know what I mean. ok....well I feel better :)

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Summary: disappointment
Review: I, like I tend to do, picked up my first diana palmer book on a whim and fell in love. Her provactive style that focused not so much on sex but instead on the intimacies and sexual tension of two people was refreshing. If I had to wade through one more erotica novel in the guise of romance I was going to jump off the roof. Now, that said, I have to say this book fell far short of my expectations.

The story of Jossette Langley who had her life torn apart TWICE by the same man is forced to work with him on a murder case. Marc Brannon was a cop who got the boy off who tried to rape Jossette when she was 15 and then had her life torn apart in another trial. But it's a romance so they still fall in love! I just sat there wondering why she was even giving him the time of day after all the havoc he had caused in her life.

Even after reading the reviews for this book i decided to give it a try because I live in West Texas and liked her book "diamond spur" because it was set in Texas. It's hard to relate to places you've never been or get into a "wintry New England" scene when it's winter here but in the 70's. But even the location couldn't string this book along.

My major complaint is that this is book is a sequel to atleast one other book, "lord of the desert" and possibly several other books from her Jacobsville series. I have no problem with books that are series but there is NO mention whatsoever of this being a sequel. I had to do some digging to find out about the prequels to this book.

That in itself is forgivable but the entire first half of the book is references to these earlier works. I was lost and in the end had to simply try to muddle my way through these rememberence scenes of people and places that are mentioned as if you, the reader, already have intimate knowledge of them.

The book was also entirely to predictable. The author drops so many clues that I knew who the murdered was by the second chapter and felt like Marc and Jossette had to be simpletons not to figure it out. I could have let this pass if the love story had been up to par to take the slake but it wasn't. There are a few scenes but they too are littered with references to other characters from earlier books and one scene is simply there to set up a forthcoming book. It made me feel like I was watching a commercial for the new Diana Palmer book.

Overall I finished this book but more than once I found myself saying "yeah right!" From Josette needing an operation to be intimate (something I found odd. It seemed like an annoyingly obviously way to keep the heroine a virgin.) to Josette letting Marc back into her life after he had wrecked it over and over to the pitiful murder "mystery" which was really no mystery, this was a disappointment.

Rating:
Summary: Terrible book
Review: Just like Desperado. The plot and characters are banal and predictable. Don't waste your time!