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McKettricks of Texas: Austin (Hqn)
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $7.99
Manufacturer: HQN Books
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Description
World champion rodeo star Austin McKettrick finally got bested by an angry bull. His career over, his love life a mess, the lone maverick has nowhere to go when the hospital releases him. Except back home to Blue River and the Silver Spur ranch. But his overachieving brothers won't allow this cowboy to brood in peace. They've even hired a nurse to speed his recovery. Paige Remington's bossy brand of TLC is driving him crazy. As is her beautiful face, sexy figure and silky black hair.
Paige has lost count of how many times Austin has tried to fire her. She's not going anywhere till he's healed—body and heart.
And by then her place in his life just might become permanent….
Reviews
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-09-07
Summary: "World champion rodeo star + Bossy Nurse who is driving him crazy = A fun romance!"
This was the 3rd book of the McKettrick brother story - I did not read the first 2 McKettricks of Texas: Tate and McKettricks of Texas: Garrett (Hqn) but it sounded like Tate and Garrett's stories would be great to go back and read...
This is Austin McKettrick story who gets injured after a bull ride and ends up back on the Silver Spur ranch to recover. His two brother are marrying the two Remington sisters and Paige Remington is their baby sister. Paige was Austin's first love and being thrown together because family make for a great humorous love story. This book has heartache, attempted murders and some great characters!
Looking forward to McKettrick's Choice Holt McKettrick story - going back a generation in McKettrick history... due to December 2010.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-09-02
Summary: "The Romance Is Sweet, But..."
Linda Lael Miller's been writing for a very long time, and while for me she's had more misses than hits, since she started writing Frontier Romances - both historical and contemporary - she's experienced a goodly amount of commercial success. When Amazon Vine offered McKettricks of Texas: Austin, the third in a contemporary series for HQN and part of a larger McKettrick series begun in 2002 when she was published by Pocket, I requested a copy for review. My reaction is mixed. I liked the second-chance-at-love romance between Austin McKettrick and Paige Remington, but found the set up for the series-within-a-series - three brothers falling in love with and marrying three sisters - entirely too precious. Add to the "too precious" quotient that they all live in the same large ranch house, and the enjoyable romance cancels out.
Austin McKettrick and Paige Remington were young lovers until fear of commitment led him to break her heart a decade earlier. He went on to become a rodeo star while she became a nurse who's spent the most recent years of her life caring for an ailing father. After a bull injures Austin, he comes home to the family ranch to convalesce, and his two older brothers, now engaged to Paige's older sisters, convince her to nurse him back to health. It doesn't take Austin terribly long to realize he wants Paige back in his life...and that he's no longer cut out for living on the road. And though the attraction between them still sizzles, Paige requires more convincing that he won't break her heart yet again. Because their siblings are to marry - in a double wedding, part of the "too precious" problem I mentioned earlier - they'll be thrown together a lot for the next fifty or so years, which worries Paige more than Austin. But not enough that she doesn't succumb to his slow and sexy seduction, not to mention his desire to break her record of eight orgasms in one bout of lovemaking.
I liked both Austin and Paige, and enjoyed watching them fall back in love, even if the author relied too much lust for illustration. And though Miller provides a reasonable amount of backstory, "deep" is not a word I'd use to describe their characterizations. But because these characters share a history, those negative qualifiers to the romance component of the book don't cancel out the positives. Their coming together again may be quick, but the "romance short-hand" between them works well and makes sense.
That said, though, the romance component of the book is only one of three which share almost equal importance. Because the series is set in Texas, there's not only ranching, but oil involved, even if the McKettrick boys' father capped off the wells years ago. A sub-plot, begun earlier in the trilogy, continues here, and while the author tries to plant some red herrings to keep the reader guessing who's responsible for mayhem on the property, she uses surprisingly clumsy foreshadowing. Of the book's three components, then - the family, the romance, and the mystery - only one succeeds. It is the most important one, but it's simply not enough to propel the book much above average.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-25
Summary: "My favorite out of the McKettrick Series"
This is the best of the McKettrick series IMO. I always imagined Austin to be the hottest of the 3 brothers and he did not disappoint (at least not from the book cover). I read this in a day and half because I could not put it down, and I have a full time job. Austin and Paige are entertaining. I highly recommend this book to romance readers.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-23
Summary: "Entertaining, but Not an Award Winner"
I remember when I first read Linda Lael Miller's books - I was in high school and they were simply awesome to me. I loved reading the civil war series books she wrote - they were some of my favorite historical romances at the time. I was extremely excited to be able to review Austin, as I hadn't read anything new that she'd written in years. Austin is the third book in the McKettrick series (she obviously has a thing with trilogies!) and it is about the youngest McKettrick brother, Austin.
The interesting thing about this story is that Austin and Paige Remington, the female lead, have a bit of history together - they're no stranger to each other, and they're not connected because his brothers, and her sisters, are set to marry each other, leaving them the odd people out. When Austin gets seriously injured, the brothers hire Paige to be his nurse, to make sure that he doesn't harm himself any further, and that's when things get intimate and interesting.
There is a lot going on in this novel. To give Miller credit, even if you haven't read the first two books (which I had not), you can still follow the story and get an idea about what happened in the previous books. That always shows me that an author is talented. I found myself reading the book eagerly looking for interactions between Paige and Austin, and that's also a good sign for a romance novel.
So why only four stars? Because I don't feel that it's quite as good as some of her older work, I guess. I read this hoping for a story that was more like "And One Wore Blue", and got something that wasn't quite as exciting, or good, as that. Is it a great, fairly quick read? Absolutely, but unfortunately it doesn't quite hold up to some of her previous work.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-15
Summary: "Okay! I'm hooked."
This is my first Linda Lael Miller book, and I've added her to my list of favorite authors. I enjoyed the interaction between Austin and his brothers and of course, with Paige. I have to go back and find the other McKettricks of Texas books, because now I'm intrigued by Tate & Libby and Garrett & Julie. And, little Calvin, Julie's son, is a real charmer. Great book, I'm looking for more of Ms. Miller's books.