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Title: Did I Read The Same Book?
Review: I haven't read any of the other Springwater books, so I came to this book cold. To me, it seemed to be just a pastiche of plots that were done better by other authors. I could just see the author going through her inventory of idea index cards and choosing them at random: big-city woman returning to her roots to start a small b&b, injured big-city cop/hunk/town-bad-boy returning to his roots to heal after his partner was killed, the failing old homestead, cattle rustling, the too-soon pregnant young married couple, the fighting old-marrieds (with the maternal character totally lifted from an old Maureen O'Hara-John Wayne movie), etc, etc, etc. Bah! I expected much more from Ms. Miller. I never even wound up finishing the book, and it takes an awful lot for me not to do that.
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