The Most Unsuitable Husband

Rating:
Summary: Poor writing, terrible characters, cliche plot = BAD NOVEL
Review: I bought this book based upon the other reviews and am now wondering if we were reading the same book. This book was awful. The heroine was your typically really dumb virgin (BORING) who was so good and kind that she adopted children from the streets. The hero was your typical rake with a tortured past. You probably can figure out where the story goes from here. One final note, the author has this annoying habit of sprinkling the phrase "Um" throughout her dialogue. I advise a more judicious use of the phrase, because it became very annoying! If you are looking for a good western romance, try Jodi Thomas or Alexis Harrington instead.

Rating:
Summary: Poor writing, terrible characters, cliche plot = BAD NOVEL
Review: I bought this book based upon the other reviews and am now wondering if we were reading the same book. This book was awful. The heroine was your typically really dumb virgin (BORING) who was so good and kind that she adopted children from the streets. The hero was your typical rake with a tortured past. You probably can figure out where the story goes from here. One final note, the author has this annoying habit of sprinkling the phrase "Um" throughout her dialogue. I advise a more judicious use of the phrase, because it became very annoying! If you are looking for a good western romance, try Jodi Thomas or Alexis Harrington instead.

Rating:
Summary: A POIGNANT WESTERN ROMANCE WITH A TENDER TRANSFORMATION
Review: In the much-anticipated sequel to THE MOST UNSUITABLE WIFE, Caroline Clemmons returns us to Kincaid County, Texas. In THE MOST UNSUITABLE HUSBAND, Pearl's younger sister, Sarah, gets her own story.
For the first time in her life, Sarah is traveling alone. Returning from her mother's funeral in Arkansas, she defies society's strictures and saves three homeless orphans. As she struggles to care for the children, Sarah discovers hidden strengths in herself. Throughout the book, she grows from a biddable young lady into an assertive woman.
This transformation alone makes Caroline Clemmons' newest release worth reading. But the book is so much more.
The story begins with Nate Bartholomew buried alive! Nate must claw and kick his way out of a pine box and six feet of dirt! Nate is a rogue. A sexy, golden-eyed gambler bent on taking from Miss-High-and-Mighty Sarah Kincaid what should have been his to begin with. His half of the money from the saloon Sarah's mother and his father ran together. Trouble is, Nate is supposed to be dead.
So he decides to steal back his money by tricking the people of Kincaid Springs. He's done his share of flimflamming in the past, though on a smaller scale. And why not seduce Miss-Butter-Wouldn't-Melt-In-Her-Mouth Kincaid while he's at it?
But Nate soon realizes he can't go through with it when Sarah gazes at him with those violet eyes and sweet innocence. Just because he helped her with those orphans, she thinks he's some hero.
Nate is my favorite kind of tortured hero. Raised by a bitter alcoholic father after his mother dies, Nate has lived an itinerate, shady life and believes he's not good enough for Sarah. Even when he almost dies saving a child's life, he knows Sarah deserves the kind of life he could never provide.
All the endearing characters from the first book return to support Sarah. With the help of Drake, Pearl's husband, and Storm, Sarah's brother, Nate redeems himself in the end.
This poignant Western romance has it all. Action-packed danger, steamy love scenes, a secondary romance, and a tender transformation from a Most Unsuitable Husband to a loving man who is suitable in every way to be a hero in a Caroline Clemmons novel.

Rating:
Summary: A POIGNANT WESTERN ROMANCE WITH A TENDER TRANSFORMATION
Review: In the much-anticipated sequel to THE MOST UNSUITABLE WIFE, Caroline Clemmons returns us to Kincaid County, Texas. In THE MOST UNSUITABLE HUSBAND, Pearl's younger sister, Sarah, gets her own story.
For the first time in her life, Sarah is traveling alone. Returning from her mother's funeral in Arkansas, she defies society's strictures and saves three homeless orphans. As she struggles to care for the children, Sarah discovers hidden strengths in herself. Throughout the book, she grows from a biddable young lady into an assertive woman.
This transformation alone makes Caroline Clemmons' newest release worth reading. But the book is so much more.
The story begins with Nate Bartholomew buried alive! Nate must claw and kick his way out of a pine box and six feet of dirt! Nate is a rogue. A sexy, golden-eyed gambler bent on taking from Miss-High-and-Mighty Sarah Kincaid what should have been his to begin with. His half of the money from the saloon Sarah's mother and his father ran together. Trouble is, Nate is supposed to be dead.
So he decides to steal back his money by tricking the people of Kincaid Springs. He's done his share of flimflamming in the past, though on a smaller scale. And why not seduce Miss-Butter-Wouldn't-Melt-In-Her-Mouth Kincaid while he's at it?
But Nate soon realizes he can't go through with it when Sarah gazes at him with those violet eyes and sweet innocence. Just because he helped her with those orphans, she thinks he's some hero.
Nate is my favorite kind of tortured hero. Raised by a bitter alcoholic father after his mother dies, Nate has lived an itinerate, shady life and believes he's not good enough for Sarah. Even when he almost dies saving a child's life, he knows Sarah deserves the kind of life he could never provide.
All the endearing characters from the first book return to support Sarah. With the help of Drake, Pearl's husband, and Storm, Sarah's brother, Nate redeems himself in the end.
This poignant Western romance has it all. Action-packed danger, steamy love scenes, a secondary romance, and a tender transformation from a Most Unsuitable Husband to a loving man who is suitable in every way to be a hero in a Caroline Clemmons novel.

Rating:
Summary: Most enjoyable treat
Review: While travelling from her mother's funeral back to her home in Texas, Sara Kincaid fints three abandoned children starving and sick. She falls in love with them and rescues them, but turns to help from a 'businessman' she met on the river boat to St. Louis--a man who just happened to be nearby at her mother's funeral.

Nate Bartholomew (Barton) deserved half the money from the sale of the bar but he can't exactly confront Sarah for it. For one thing, he's supposed to be dead. For another, if he wasn't dead, the law would be after him. Still, he vows that he'll get his money back somehow. How he feels about the children Sarah rescues, how he begins to feel about Sarah herself, has nothing to do with his plan. At least not at first. And by the time it starts to matter, by the time he realizes that he wants more of the beautiful young woman, it's too late. Besides, what respectable woman would have anything to do with a con-man and a gambler like himself? Nate knows that he's not husband material.

Author Caroline Clemmons continues her Kincaid series with a sensuous story of love, family, and trust set in 19th century Texas and St. Louis. Fans of the series will be happy to see Storm, Pearl, and the other members of the family again. Nate makes a fine tortured hero. Sarah grows as a character through the story. Always spunky, her love for the children she rescues and her growing affection for Nate allow her to assert herself, to learn to care less about proprieties and more about what is right.

THE MOST UNSUITABLE HUSBAND is an enjoyable treat.