Texas Born Review

Title: Texas Born

Author: Diana Palmer

Line: Special Edition

Series: Long, Tall Texans

Publisher: Harlequin

ISBN: 9780373658411

Website: http://www.harlequin.com

My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Michelle Godfrey's lived a Cinderella life.  After her loving father passed away, she was left to the mercy of her evil stepmother.  When things couldn't get any worse, a knight appeared to save her.  Gabriel Brandon was enchanted with Michelle and made it his goal to take her underneath his wings.  But with her still being a teenager, he had to take a step back so she can grow up and experience the world.  But when she finally grew up, can Michelle show him that she was ready to be his forever?

I don’t know.  It was good overall but I was left a little unsatisfied by the end.  The characters were fine.  As with all Palmer’s characters, they were all good people that somehow were all involve with mercenaries and drug cartels.  There were a lot of recurring characters that I enjoyed reading about again.  However, the hero was surprisingly scarce.  If this was a romance, I expected some romance.  Because she was still young and he didn’t want to push her, he left the story.  What???  He did not come back until the final chapter.  Would I call this a romance?  It felt more like a young adult book that eventually morphed to a romance at around the 200-page mark.  One could say the pacing was a little off.  There was too much focus on Michelle’s growing up that everything was waylaid to the side.  It became an assumption that since they found each other attractive at the beginning, they were going to end up together in any case.  You see Gabriel’s sister more often than him.   However, I did find his sister very entertaining.  And like her recent books, it was a clean book except for one scene after a rushed wedding in the last chapter. 

Well, I can’t help buying a Diana Palmer book.  It was a good fiction.  No arguments there.  If you are looking for a romance that is hot and steamy, this isn’t exactly it.  The writing is always good and you do become invested in the cast of characters after all this time.  But if you are expecting different, this wasn’t it.  If you are still reading her books and enjoying them, please get this book.  I only gave it 3 stars because I wanted more Gabriel, less Michelle and more fun scenes between the two.  As is, I read it but wouldn’t be reading this one again.