Tough to Tame

by Diana Palmer

Book Overview

Another spellbinding new installment in the Long, Tall Texans series New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer welcomes you back to Jacobsville, Texas, to become reacquainted with Bentley Rydel.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037317649X
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Harlequin Romance
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.8" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Tough and Tame

I enjoyed Tough and Tame. I have enjoyed Diana Palmer's books about the residents of Jacobsville (read each at least twice)and can't wait for Dangerour and Agent Kilraven's story.

interesting

ok i will start off easy with this book it was good but was missing something i dont know whats happened but it didnt have the same sparks as the other of her books and that made me sad all in all it was a good book, but it was missing something. now i really hope that there is nothing wrong with kilraven's story as i have been looking forward to it for a while please put the spark back in your work mrs. palmer.

Why do I keep reading Palmer?

As a previous reviewer mentioned, Diana Palmer is repetitive in her stories (I can not dignify them with the title "plots"). So why do I keep reading these books? Am I hoping for a return to the old Palmer style? No-I read them for the humor-mostly unintentional (I think)- of the trials and tribulations of the residents of the ever-shifting town of Jacobsville, Texas. "Ever-shifting", you ask? Jacobsville appears to be located within close driving distance of whichever large Texas city is a key location in the "plot" of the book. Houston, Austin, San Antonio...As a former resident of Wilson County, yes, Austin and San Antonio are fairly close together (in a Texas kind of way), but Houston? Not so much. This particular tale did not irk me as much as say, the Keely-Boone book. He was in his mid thirties, and Keely was 19? What do a man in his thirties and a teenager have in common? Even a teen with a "tragic past, and health problems"? Cappie seemed a relatively stable individual, without serious health problems or a terrible terrible past (except for the moron ex), and Bentley Rydell was a typical Palmer hero-alpha male with (step)daddy issues. I enjoyed the fact that Palmer left out many of the tacked on history lessons that have permeated many of her recent efforts; instead,, the reader gets a primer on Vet Techs and groomers and their function in the well-being and health of a dog. As I am neither a vet tech, nor a groomer-this did not irritate me like the "history/archaeology/anthropology" spiels do (I am working on my PhD in History). I will continue to purchase Diana's works, as they successfully provide hours and hours of comedy gold (like CSI:Miami!)

To Love And Protect

I like the old, old Harlequin Romance books, but my friends find that a shame and are always buying me the more modern romances. I don't usually like them, and although I read them so when the friend calls to have a discussion about the book I'm not in the dark about the story. Amazingly I really liked this book, Ms Palmer has won me back to her. I prefer Helen Brooks, Jessica Steele, Susan Fox, and Eva Rutland as well as the late great Betty Neels, Essie Summers and Mary Burchell. I'm a long time fan of Ms Palmer, but since she went to college to learn to write, she has been writing books that tell about the story before this book, and the story after this book, leaving only a few pages for the story we are trying to read. I liked her older books, but she had a how to make love in three or four chapters. Although Keely Welsh and & Boone Sinclair who was a newlywed, and spoke as if we knew about their story, but I didn't. Even though the same thing happened in an earlier book about Cash Grier,and his wife Tippy. Although the alpha females are usually virgins, they are able to have sex over and over again, many times without pain or discomfort. Most writers make that mistake. Now the only thing I had against this story is that the so called undercover agents had no problem blabbing about other agents and what branch CIA,FBI,DEA,CID,KGB, covert operation or black ops. Everybody plays video games and talk the language of gamers, with left me in the dark. Bentley Rydel, is a Veterinarian, and Cappie Drake is a Vet tech. We get a bit of insight of a Vet practice, and even though Bentley had known Cappie for some weeks, he finally notices her when her hair comes down and he falls in love, but his love is a wimpy emotion. Frank Bartlett feed Bentley a story that he believes even though he is supposed to be in love with Cappie. When Cappie is faced with being killed, after her crippled brother is beaten by three men, suddenly Bentley sees he more of less opened the door for Cappie to be either badly hurt, or even killed by the man who had come close to killing her once before. I was pleased Cappie didn't fall into his arms when he found he was wrong. Unfortunately as our judicial system seems to be pro-criminals. And Frank was given a light sentence, and gets out only to come looking for Cappie. Because she put him in prison and he wants to pay her back. Bentley steps up to the plate and defends Cappie, her brother gets his mobility back because of the beating he got from Frank and friends, and everything turns out sunny side up.

Tough to Tame

This is a great read I read it in on afternoon ! If you are truely a fan you will not be disappointed. Miss Kitty in Indiana