Cherished Love

Rating:
Summary: mediocre
Review: the first story was the most disappointing. Bitner usually has more substance to her writing. When I read one of her earlier books, ("Embers of the Heart" I think the title was), I was deeply moved. Subsequent titles were almost as involving. Perhaps because this was a short story there was no plot or character development. The heroine went from aversion to love without our understanding fully how that happened.

The second story was the best. I loved the heroine and her motivations seemed to go beyond the standard "I'm not good enough for him" formula. It was on the strength of this tale that I rated the book as high as I did.

The third story was awful, filled with western cliches. I don't understand why authors of western romance feel the need to resort to stereopyical cowboy dialogue in order to convey the setting. It speaks of poor writing--very amaturish.