Curtiss Ann Matlock
Autore di Cold Tea On A Hot Day
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Serie
Opere di Curtiss Ann Matlock
To Mother With Love '92: More Than a Mother/ Neighborly Affair/ Jilly's Secret (1992) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Der lange Treck nach Sacramento 1 copia
Rosa do deserto 1 copia
A Place In This World 1 copia
Opere correlate
Silhouette Christmas Stories, 1988 Anthology: The Twelfth Moon/Eight Nights/ Christmas Magic/ Miracle on I-40 (1988) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1951
- Sesso
- female
- Luogo di residenza
- Oklahoma, USA
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 39
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 827
- Popolarità
- #30,854
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 21
- ISBN
- 95
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 3
I won a signed copy of this at least 15 years ago. It sat on my shelves because it's a Western romance, and those generally aren't my thing.
I initially thought this was contemporary-set, but some of the attitudes about race had me doing a bit of googling, and it looks like it might be set in the 1950s. The heroine is 6 months pregnant and has recently learned her husband died suddenly in another woman's bed. I just put up with 28 pages of her grieving, remembering his blond hair, green eyes, and sheepish smile every time he came home to beg her not to be mad at him because he screwed yet another woman.
Well, he made a vow too, and repeatedly broke it.
Roy's not the book's hero, obviously - I'm pretty sure the funeral procession just passed the actual hero - and the hero might be the sort of guy who makes the heroine realize how much time and emotional labor she wasted putting up with Roy's crap for years. But I don't have the patience to wait for Etta to come to this epiphany, if she even does.… (altro)