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| Heart Of Stone (Silhouette Special Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Diana Palmer
Publisher: Silhouette
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 4741
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Special
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0373249217
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780373249213
ASIN: 0373249217
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Product Description
Boone Sinclair is a hallmark Diana Palmer hero: tall, strong and handsome. A businessman and a rancher, Boone had it all—except for Keely Welsh. The first time he spotted her on his property, he was determined not to let her get away from him. The lovely beauty would be his.…Every Long, Tall Texan gets his woman, and this one would not be denied.
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 Same Characters, Same Story, All Over Again August 31, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am reluctant to give this book one star, but i feel as a die hard reader of Diana Palmer, i must. As a stand alone book, perhaps....perhaps it deserves two, but when taking into account the latest stream of carbon copy stories Ms Palmer has delivered I feel I have to give it a singular, lonely star.
I dont even know where to begin except to say that if you have read any of her books in the last few years...then you have read this one. Only perhaps before the story was a lot more interesting, and thats not saying much if you look at the reviews for "Winter Roses". On top of being formulaic, and contrived, the love story itself was boring.
Her last book "Fearless", I thought was a step in the right direction. A heroine with brains and a little personality. A story line that had a little bite, and a little sizzle, but this book....lacks even that.
>>>Heres the part were i would say warning...spoilers, but if you have read anything by her in recent years, then you have read this book! so theres nothing to SPOIL!!!!<<<
Ok so heres the rundown, and you decide for yourself if its familiar
Plain faced, emotionaly scarred, AND disfigured, green eyed, blond virgin who has loved the "hero" since for-eva, and yet scared of her own shadow..sound familiar?? it should, shes a recycled character from Fearless, Carrerras bride, Heartbreaker, Lawman,especially and Iron Cowboy. I mean really....are they all sisters are they clones...can we get a redhead or a brunette in here somewhere?
ok,., now to mix add Dark, rich, brooding, rude, hairy, alpha male, who never has anything nice to say to the heroine...yet were supposed to believe he desires her? that he holds her in high esteem when he berates her and demeans her? What the french toast????
Now stir in boring and stupid anticillary characters, a weak story line, and a frustrated reader ( thats me!) and you get the longest three hours of my life.
The heroine has an abusive mother, a cracked out father, no friends except the heros sister, and has been mauled by a mountain lion.
( yeah thats right..Pete Puma, one lump or two)
Shes, meek, a self admitted wimp, and coward...I mean really, what kind of man would be attracted to the kind of woman who cant even stand up for herself.?
Do all of her female characters have to be so....damaged, so fearful of men and of the world itself. I mean I get that Ms Palmer is not the biggest fan of the independant woman, but I just want to shake her and say "You can be smart, and beautiful, and work really hard..and still want a good man to love and cherish you"
There was nothing about this woman that I as a reader, or as a human found attractive. She likes animals....great. she slaves away for her alcholic mom and her nitwit friend...whopee? But who is she? Shes a 19 year old girl, with no life experience and who is to afraid of her own mother and would be boyfriend to even find her way into womanhood.
Just to be cute....I asked my boyfriend to read some of the book this morning, just to get a gage on what his reaction to the character would be. Do you know what he said after he made me promise to never make him read another romance novel again?....he said "Why would any man want to be with a woman who is so pitiful?" He told me in one word that he thought the character was, from what he read...pathetic. ----this from a man who thinks that watching Monday night football should be an olympic event!
Ill go a step further and ask, why would anyone want to be with either to them?
And...,while we're on the topic of men..Why are all the men so out of touch with their own emotions that they cant even manage a kind word until the heroine ends up in the hospital (As they almost always do, due to car crashes, miscarriages, and in this case a snake bite)
With all the time Ms palmer spends on adding characteristics to her characters she could have spent more time adding personality. I never saw, or understood what the connection was between the two main characters....they didnt communicate that much, or really, seem like they were that into each other. More attention was paid to the hero's "Va-jay-jay" whipped brother and his skank-muffin waitress girl friend whose milkshakes apparently brought all the boys to the yard...if you get my drift, and the heroines drunk for no reason mother, than the actual personalities of the characters. I feel like when I opened the book, i joined a show already in progress and I never understood what the heck I missed.
And after all this, you might ask...why does she do it to herself....why does she bother,
Answer: I remember the good old times, Once in paris, Desperado, After Midnight, Lord of the Desert, Lacy, Trilby...aka Diana Palmer at her best, when the characters had character and were interesting. not shallow carbon copies of stories past told.
I'm hoping she'll find whats shes clearly lost....her imagination.
Well, it's better than some of her recent work August 22, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Boone is jerk who hates his sister's best friend, Keely (in the same way that Stuart hated Ivy, and JB hated Tellie, and so forth). Keely is plain, blond, and has light eyes (I think, but she doesn't wear glasses), and a medical condition/secret scars. However,the heroine of this DP book has a real job! And parents (dysfunctional, but not dead)! And we finally find out who sold the Congressman who was beaten by Calhoun Ballenger in the election's daughter the drugs that killed the sheriff's brother. Or was it Ivy's (from Winter Roses) sister who did that? It doesn't matter, because recently DP hasn't cared about continuity either!
More drug dealers in Jacobsville, land of the ever-shifting geographical location. Evil-doers doing evil, no shades of grey, unless it is convenient to the "plot". The Pendletons from Fearless aren't blood siblings (I smell a new book storyline!)and a whole bunch of other stuff that gets in the way of what should have been the "romance" in this romance novel. The hero and heroine interact more with other people than with each other! But, again, it is significantly better than many of Diana Palmer's recent efforts. Of course, that isn't truly saying much.
*I ordered the book from eHarlequin, because I am a glutton for the trainwreck nature of DP writings.
Why do we keep buying??? September 7, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
First of all, as I have said in other reviews of Palmer books, I have all of Palmer's books and love the older titles. However, it seems that there is one master story on Palmer's computer and when it's time for her to submit something she goes and changes the names of the characters. If you like the same story with a young virginal, scarred or sick heroine who has a "case" on her best friend's older brother because he is a "dish" and you love Palmer's endless referrals to breeding programs, Science Fiction or ancient ruins, then don't hesitate to buy. I am sure that all of us will rush out and get the next release which will probably be another carbon copy, but Palmer fans can't seem to help it.
Do not reading. September 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Do not bother to read this book. It is exactly like her other books. They are all with the same characters, the men; rought looking, emotionally cold and women haters and the women; timid, midly attractive, scarred with a crush on their best friend's brother. They all have the same personalities with the same ending. Can't she write something different. I have been reading her books for years hoping one will be different, I give up. Do not waste your money.
Same old same old September 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is my last Diana Palmer book. I am tired of the same old story line that she has done again and again. Always the brooding older man and the much younger girl who has loved him forever. Can't she come up with something different? Just change the names of the main characters and it could any of her many Long Tall Texan books. Enough is enough.
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