Laurel Bradshaw's Reviews > Touch The Horizon

Touch The Horizon by Iris Johansen

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Jun 26, 10

bookshelves: love-stories, 20th-century
Read from June 21 to 25, 2010

Book description from Amazon:
She was stranded in a deadly sandstorm when he rode to her rescue like a desert prince on his black stallion. On a lark Billie Callahan had come to the Middle East to play a minor film role in a desert epic. Suddenly she found herself starring in a real-life romantic adventure. Cowboy, hero, friend of sheikhs and princes, David Bradford spoke like a poet in the drawl of his native Texas. What was this mysterious, eccentric, and irresistibly seductive man doing in Sedikhan, and what did he want with an ordinary woman like Billie? Her curiosity piqued, Billie followed David to the lavish pleasure fortress he called home, with its armed guards and adoring staff. He warned her that the pleasure he offered her would last forever. What he didn’t know was that Billie only believed in now.

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I'd give this about a 1.5 rating. I am not a fan of the romance genre, but read this for my book club. On the positive side, it is a short, quick read. I found the setting improbable, the characters improbable, a woman afraid of commitment who jumps right into bed with a man she has just met, the dialogue is laughable, he loves her why?, the scene where there was finally some kind of danger/tension was solved within 5 minutes in a very improbable manner. I found myself hooting with laughter at this very formulaic love story, which I don't think was the author's intention. I gave it a 1.5 because I did manage not to throw the book at the wall....

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message 1: by Linda (new)

Linda I gave up on y book club when I found I was dreading having to read the choices many of the others made.


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