Under the Stars

I have to admit, I grabbed this book for the fabulous cover. Besides, I'm often looking for U titles for challenges and I am glad to have read it for that reason.

Otherwise, I am not the audience for this book. I'm not a huge romance reader and that's the main focus of the book. I get hung up on wanting things to make sense and wanting to feel a true historical flavor when I read historical books. Rosie, to me, felt like an enterprising girl from the 1950s or 1960s who was misplaced into an earlier time frame. Everything is larger than life and there's not a lot of nuance. Historical conversation seems to “happen” with her getting an intermittent mountain accent with bad grammar; she's got a slender waist and beautiful features but she brings down hardened outlaws time and again. And then peskier errors like thinking laryngitis isn't contagious. And calling someone a moron in the 1800s. Oh well. Oh, and lace wasn't scratchy back then because it was all handmade. I didn't realize her folks were so incredibly wealthy as to provide yards and yards of it for a wedding gown. So...yeah. Just not my sort of book.

Mostly clean. She completely ignores her father's advice though dependent on him for a home. We are told how she uses the toilet in the open while in disguise on the trail.

I'd recommend this one to readers more interested in romance than in a western or in historical detail.

Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for a free reading copy. A favorable review was not required.