Rogue

by Janet Dailey

Book Overview

Bestselling author Janet Dailey captures today's West--still wild, and vibrant with the proud passions and daring desires of bold men and women Across the windswept plains of Nevada, through... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671828436
• ISBN13: 9780671828431
• Release Date: February 1980
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very Good Book

Only The Last Few Pages Were Missing......

Kind of spicy and titillating

Diana Somers grew up on an Arabian horse ranch with her father and an assortment of ranch hands. Around the time she was 14, her happy tomboy existence changes when a new ranch hand, Holt Mallory arrives with his son Guy. Holt convinces Diana's father that she should act like a lady, and stop riding stallions and going on trail rides. Diana cooperates and goes to school, but resents Holt terribly, and lets him know it. Meanwhile, Guy, the son, adores Diana and follows her around like a puppy dog. Well, some stuff happens, and Diana grows up and marries for the wrong reasons, and gets divorced, and returns to the ranch. Guy confesses his love for her and one thing leads to another, in a not especially healthy way. Diana and Holt have a fiery relationship full of acrimony and false accusations, and one thing leads to another, again in a not particularly healthy way. Meanwhile, there is a mysterious and almost magical white stallion that is stealing mares and starting fights, and generally being a nuisance, but he is too beautiful to kill. I am giving this book a high rating for a couple of reasons. Remember those horse stories you used to love in middle school where the horse was a metaphor for something sexy and dominating? The wild mustang stallion is the ultimate alpha male. What fun to revisit that theme. Second, the book is really steamy with a '70's sort of free-love mentality. The heroine sleeps around. And there are consequences. Just because her emotions aren't engaged doesn't mean somebody else's aren't. Which is a good lesson to remember, and something we don't see too much in modern romance books. So this one is a little different, and a little steamy, with a touch of "oh my I can't believe she did that" in the plot. It's pretty good, if you're in the mood for that kind of thing.

Still Good

I've always been a Janet Daley fan. I read this book years ago; I loved it then, and I still love it.