Wyoming Tough

Wyoming Tough - Diana Palmer Well fan me with a blowtorch -- I actually kind of enjoyed this! No question it has many flaws, not the least of which are the holier-than-thou, Mary Sue of a heroine -- Morie is the hardest working ranch hand ever, but she was also offered a modeling career and a musical scholarship, can cook and organize fancy parties, tames escaped convicts, and has birds suddenly appear every time she is near -- and the hero, who's such an idiot I suspect someday he'll drown in the rain like a turkey. (In typical Palmer fashion, having driven away the woman he really loves, he ponders marrying the girlfriend he's suspicious of and finds annoying.) And what's with all the weird names? I kept thinking Mallory was the heroine, not the hero, and then there's Morie and Mavie -- and the evil girlfriend, Gelly. Obviously only the good people get to have M names.Nonetheless, I found this far more readable and coherent than any Palmer book I've tried lately, and was actually really caught up in the story after awhile. And though it's overdone, I liked that Morie is successful and confident, not hideously downtrodden like so many Palmer heroines.