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Summary: ONE OF KATHLEEN EAGLE'S BEST!
Review: Over the years I've read quite a lot of Kathleen Eagle's books. I'm always impressed by her style and her sincerity and her commitment to giving me a good read. But I truly fell in love with this book. It's not fast-paced. It's leisurely. It's not chock-full of passion. It's human. Its characters are people I could believe in, people who weren't perfect, who didn't have all the answers, but at least hadn't given up looking for them. I like books about relationships -- and this is, for my money, one of the best I've read.
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Summary: A Gem!!!
Review: Such a wonderful book! I love just about everybody & everything in it- the characters, especially K.C. & Julia, the place & the horses. Highly recommended.
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Summary: srereotypical
Review: The main character in "The Bridges of Madison County" called himself the last cowboy. Perhaps that is where the author got her inspiration for the hero of this book. If your idea of a romantic male is one who speaks about how he is easy to love and hard to hold and compares women to fillies then this is your book. I found both books very disappointing because of the heros. This one has the improbable name of K.C., drawls his grammar, grins his "darlin'"s likes to toss back a few brews, dance with the women folk and take a lazy smoke in the back yard. This is more western stereotype than western hero. The heroine's personality never came clear to me either. She was a social worker just shy of a PhD., yet I never felt her passion for the boys she supposedly wanted to help. The story was slow moving, involved the family but never really engaged me. I did like how the hero seemed to truly respect the heroine and finally realized how much he needed her as his center.
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Summary: Kathleen Eagle at her very best
Review: The owner of Wyoming's High Horse Ranch, Ross Weslin hires K.C. Houston to be the horse trainer. However, before K.C. can get to the ranch, Ross dies. Lacking funds, Ross' grandmother and one of his two sisters, Dawn, lean towards selling the spread. However, Ross' other sibling Julia, who just returned home after working in the city as a social worker, decides to try to make a go of the ranch. When K.C arrives, he is greeted by the three grieving women. In particular the lone cowboy is attracted to Julia, who, to her own shock reciprocates. As they work together to save the ranch and Ross' dreams, they fall in love. Still, he is drifter and she does not trust her heart so unless both can see the true value of their love, more than just a ranch will be sold. Kathleen Eagle is renowned for her sensational story telling and her latest romance, THE LAST TRUE COWBOY, enhances her deserved reputation. The story line is fun to read as it is a very interesting tale. The lead protagonists are a charming couple, and the support cast and the picaresque setting add much to the novel. Ms. Eagle has added a feather to her cap with this wonderful contemporary romance. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Pure, relaxing reading pleasure!
Review: This book is so crisp you can feel the air at the ranch it centers around. It's not just a typical love story. It challenges you to think about possibilities beyond the norm. I learned things about horses I never even thought about and came away with a better appreciation of the true wildness still available out there somewhere. Kathleen Eagle is a master at making you flip the pages!
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Summary: Delightful Reading
Review: This was a great novel. From the very beginning I couldn't put it down. The Last True Cowboy has a great story and full interesting characters. I wanted to read slow and make it last, but I couldn't stand waiting to see what happened next. It's a novel you can truly get into.
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Summary: Better by far than the Horse Whisperer
Review: This was may first introduction to Kathleen Eagle and it was a corker! Genuine emotion, no easy answers, moving writing...what more could you ask for? Both the heroine and hero seem like real people.
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Summary: The Last True Cowboy by Kathleen Eagle
Review: This was my first Eagle book and surely will not be my last. Powerful women and strong women with a sense of family and roots. Wonderful dialogue between the characters and the descriptive passages of the land and horses is excellent. And the chemistry between KD and Julie does not sizzle like most novels but smolders and doesn't go out. They don't play games which I usually like. This is not your typical romance. It is full of revelations about survival and has a sense of humor and is intelligently written and sooooooooo good. And I am babbling. The sex is enduring as well as hot and KD can put his boots under my bed anytime.
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Summary: Do not call this delightful story "just a romance".
Review: To pigeonhole the trials of Julia Weslin and the relationship that grows between her and K. C. Houston as a typical romance novel certainly doesn't due this book justice. Satisfying at just about every level, I couldn't put it down. Ms. Eagle did an especially good job of pacing the relationship between the two main characters with the same patience K. C. used on his horses. The result was a more realistic book in many ways than "The Horse Whisperer". If you loved Tom Booker, you'll enjoy the way Ms. Eagle gave her hero the same gift with horses, but used her creativity to make K. C. Houston equally interesting yet fascinatingly unique in his own way. The plot, the minor characters, and of course, the horses give this tale equal parts of color, depth and humor with enough emotional twists to keep just about any reader happy. I've enjoyed all Ms. Eagle's books, but without a doubt, this is my favorite.
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Summary: K.C. Houston is a man's man...and a woman's dream
Review: When I read about a unique band of wild horses that had been discovered in Utah, I knew I had to work them into a story about rare, wonderful Western critters, and real cowboys fit that description. K.C. arrives at the High Horse Ranch in Wyoming and finds that the man who brought him up from Texas to train horses is dead, leaving 3 women in desperate need of one good cowboy. A guy who loves women as much as he loves horses just can't say no to a challenge like this.
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