Texas Rich

Rating:
Summary: a must read!!!
Review: the texas series by Fern Michaels absolutely takes you out of your world, and enter the family of the Texas Colemans.
this series is the best I have ever read.
I imagined every character, had them all pictured in my head.
I became so engrossed in the colemans and their trial and tribulations. I savored every word. couldn't put them down because they were so wonderful, but hated to end the series.
I recommend this series for someone who wants to escape your world and enter another.
be warned, you'll want more!!!!
absolutely the best!!!

Rating:
Summary: Vivid, but depressing!
Review: This is the first of Fern Michael's books that I have read. Don't know that I'll read another. I have the sequel to this book (Texas Heat) but don't think that I'll read it because I don't care enough about any of the characters to continue reading. Obviously this was a tragic romance, although it was a little too tragic for my tastes. The end of the book left me feeling nothing but depressed; and I generally like my books to give me a *nice* escape.

The characters were a little too dark for me. I also found it annoying that although the author tried to paint Billie as a pushover, she did find the power to assert herself time and time again, yet each time she talked back it seemed like a revelation to the people around her, as if they'd never seen it before. With her father-in-law, Seth, Billie talked back many times, but Seth seemed to be floored every time it happened, as did her husband, Moss.

I did enjoy Michael's vivid description and dialogue; however, the whole book depressed the heck out of me. And Maggie (Billie's daughter) is not a character I'd like to continue reading about. She's a little too conniving for me.