Run for the hills, save yourself, run!! Just don’t lose your time and money on this “book”. “The Heart of Texas” has been the biggest waste of $7.99 I have ever made. I cannot believe I spend that much on such an insipid, boring, stupid, story.
I am trying really hard to find the right words to describe this “book”, and is that word used loosely on this atrocity. It started out fine, with a premise that was over the top, but might have worked: A forced Marriage or Arranged Marriage.
The book is about feuding families the Hayes and the Campbells. Apparently very “Dallas-Like”. The Hayes are powerful rich, evil, three siblings, one bad very bad older brother, and two good very good younger siblings. Middle sibling gets cheated out of his part of the inherence because he isn’t married and to spite his father he marries the gay sun of his father’s long time enemy. Thing is I don’t even want to waste my time explaining the plot, because you might feel like reading the book! It’s an over the top cliché plot, but if executed correctly it could have been great, but then we have this:
“I hate you het-boy”
“I bought you Campbell”
“I love you het-boy”
“I love you, but won’t say it Campbell-Hayes…Ooops I said now fuck me!”
That fast we went from hate to love, with no stop in go, no rationality, no showing just telling. Because that is what this entire book does: TELL YOU. Then we go into the almost painful or full on painful dialogue. Dear god, who in their right minds speaks this way, what two grown up real men speak this way? Every single piece of dialogue feels forced. I swear a Chihuahua having sex with an elephant would be more natural than this dialogue.
Characters change with out reason, the mother from being cold and calculating, not really caring about her children, to abnegated mother who let her son hit her and won’t go to the cops, because he has evil in him and needs help. No character development at all, even the daughter in law, from randomly appearing for a quickie with her brother in law (who swears he has never been there before), to being drunk, to being poor good mom who puts up with cheating abusive husband for the kids. Out of nowhere just thrown in there because more drama was needed, I still don’t understand the point of this character in the story at all.
There are so many stories lines crossing each other, and each are giving so poor, non-gratifying resolutions, that it is like reading one disappointing ending after another. Then there is the sister’s pregnancy, with the big who is the father secret. What a stupid, nonsensical way to bring that out to light. There was zero character development, it would have been better to tell us from the start who it was and have us worry about how and when she is going to say something. When is he going to find out, what is he going to do. Not that ridiculous scene at the gas station, we all knew from the start she wasn’t going to die with the pregnancy. Every single climax this author created was ruined by her inability to follow through, to show instead of tell.
Don’t waste your money, don’t waste your time, run for the hills read something else. ESCAPE from the “The Heart of Texas”.
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