Review- A Town Called Valentine by Emma Cane

Title: A Town Called Valentine

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Author: Emma Cane

Publisher: Avon, January 2012

Available for pre-order

Source: Free for review from Amazon Vine Program

Rating: 2.5

Sexy Rating: 5

Description from back of book:  Welcome to Valentine Valley—where broken hearts come home to mend, and true love may lie just across the range . . .

Emily Murphy never thought she’d return to her mom’s rustic hometown in the Colorado Mountains. But after her marriage in San Francisco falls apart, leaving her penniless and heartsick, she returns to her old family home to find a new direction for her life. On her first night back, though, a steamy encounter with handsome rancher Nate Thalberg is not the fresh start she had in mind . . .

Nate has good reason not to trust the determined beauty who just waltzed into town—he’s no stranger to betrayal. Besides, she’s only there to sell her family’s old property and move back out. But as Nate and Emily begin working side-by-side to restore her time-worn building and old family secrets change Emily’s perception of herself, both are about to learn how difficult it is to hide from love in a place known far and wide for romance, family ties, and happily-ever-afters: a town called Valentine.

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I was on the fence between calling this book “disappointing” and “okay”.  This novel just didn’t do it for me.  I thought it was totally predictable.  It was so slow that I wanted to slap the heroine for being hot one minute and cold the next.  She was involved in trash removal for so long I was ready to jump a plane and help her out and she could have had the trash out in record time if she didn’t socialize with the woman next door forever and a day.  The hero walked around with blue balls through much of the book but that was his fault for always putting himself in a situation where that would happen.  The side plot of Emily’s real father was neither interesting nor surprising.  By the time I got to the end of the book I could care less about any of the characters.  I guess it was more “disappointing” than “okay”.