by Penelope Williamson
I think the book did a very good job at capturing the time and place. I most enjoyed how the author used the sheep herder/cowboy conflict of the west to drive the plot.
I understand that The Outsider is loosely based on a John Wayne movie, "Angel and the Badman." I confess I'm not a John Wayne fan, have never seen this movie, and other than "The Unforgiven", I can't say I'm a huge fan of western movies generally. That admission, to some, may be close to heresy. Lik...
Good grief. This is what you call a saga, I guess. I have no idea if I liked it or not. By the end, the traumas were just piled on, so much so that it was almost numbing. I could not believe the HEA either, that just seemed over the top and implausible, even in Romancelandia. Plus, how happy can...
Widowed heroine & her 9yo son are members of a small ascetic religious community called the Plains in Montana. Injured desperado Hero stumbles into their homestead & heroine tends his serious injuries. Having religious-outsider Hero living with heroine is met with silent disapproval by her community...
Not quite as good as the reviews led me to believe, but worth the time.
Rachel Yoder is a member of an group of an Amish type sect called The Plain People. Recently widowed, she and her son Benjo continue to work the farm and raise the sheep in late 19C Montana. Left for dead, gunman Johnny Cain stumbles onto her farm and Rachel nurses him back to health and allows him ...
There are alot of good reviews on this book. I didn't think it was all that great and I found myself in many instances browsing pages to get past some lengthy descriptions of this or that. At first I was quite intrigued with the outsider but as time went on I was like, whoa, this is just too drawn...
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