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Hank & Chloe

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Hank & Chloe JoAnn Mapson $13.00 Harperperennial (1994) ISBN: 0060924640 320 pages average review: Reviews: This gets: a from ryan: I REALLY loved this book about Hank (early 40-something university professor) and Chloe (30-something super-tough orphan turned cow-girl) because the ups and downs in the courtship of these two seemed really believable to me. However, I thought that the characterization of Chloe was SO overdone, over the top, too-tough-for-her-own-good. She cusses so, so much, and we are supposed to respect her for "telling it like it is" or whatever, but I ended up feeling more like she was just kind of trashy. And the way she is with sex is so ridiculous--way too much like some nasty guy--I just didn't buy it. And I felt like Hank was a pretty decent guy, but after he starts to fall for Chloe it's like he completely loses his spine and becomes this big ol' wuss. BUT, all that said, I still couldn't put it down until I finished it in two days straight! So, obviously I think it's still more than worth reading (just buy it used...:-) From the back cover: Chloe Morgan is a thirty-three-year-old part-time waitress, small-time horse trainer, and full-time thoroughly toughened Western woman living in a corner of the dwindling canyonlands of Southern California. Calloused and wary, Chloe allows herself to love with total abandon and complete faith only her horse and her dog. That is, until a quirk in the weather and a sunrise funeral service cause her to cross the path of Henry Oliver, a sedate professor of folklore at the local college, who, like Chloe, has his reasons for holding back. But once Hank steps inside Chloe's makeshift cabin in the hills, Chloe realizes she must come to terms with her losses and decide between the life of solitude she had always thought was her fate and the love of a man who seems--at first--all wrong. eryka.com scale: So good you just can't stand it. Almost that good. Sort of good. Generally a waste of time. Destined for the recycler. If you'd like to review this book, or another, click here Similar books by category: women writers | american Go home | Go to fiction home © 2002 eryka.com. All rights reserved.