Sweet Memories/One Tough Texan

by LaVyrle Spencer

Book Overview

Based on the 1989 Putnam book. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373834101
• ISBN13: 9780373834105
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Harlequin Books
• Length: 649 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Story !!!

This book is a favourite of mine. Ms. Spencer made magic with this Inspiring love story. The Hero, Brian captured my heart with his Emotinal Depth, the way he saw beyond the surface to love Theresa for the beauty of WHO she was and not for anything superficial. Ms. Spencer used this story to touch on a woman's insecurities and how profoundly they can control one's life. Even though the average reader won't share this heroine's particular problem. Everyone has issues and insecurities so that they can empathize with her. Everyone should have a Brian in their life! I don't understand any negative reviews. I found this a sweet, touching love story. I highly recommend this book.

Four Stars for Spencer 0 for Freed

Sweet Memories is not one of Spencer's best, but it is in good standing with her exceptional ability to bring the reader into the story. She knows her characters and writes of them as if she is the actress portraying the part. She must have used a model for this heroine, because she wrote a little too close to home about the typical red head, fair skinned woman and her personal problems with blushing, sun burn and frizzy hair syndrome. All in all, the characters were perfect, the setting was perfect and like I said, you really felt you were in their lives. Spencer is a very descriptive writer and researches her settings in depth no matter how simple the setting. This one really brings you into the typical American home in the late 70's/early 80's. As for the Freed book, it was pathetic to compare her to Spencer. There is no comparison. Freed started out with a great concept and went off in the strangest direction. Two chapters into the book and they're getting mugged in a latino ghetto? Huh? What did that have to do with anything? Just bring the hero and heroine together in any light and stay there. That's what LS does so perfectly. She writes a romantic story about 2 people. She doesn't stray from them. I put the book down at that part and would have thrown it away if it weren't for the fact that it was my only copy of Sweet Memories. Jan Freed should try READING a Spencer novel before she attempts to share a book jacket. If I were LaVyrle, I'd sue the publisher!!

TWO OF ROMANCE'S BEST TOGETHER!

LaVyrle Spencer can do no wrong. And neither can Jan Freed. If you haven't read this award-winning, multi-RITA finalist yet . . . well, what are you waiting for? Her characters walk off the pages and into your heart. Her writing resonates with emotion, her stories sing with her incredible voice. And now, in ONE TOUGH TEXAN, she offers up the wonderful Matt and Abby as well as an awesome cast of secondary characters so real you'll want to step into the pages for a nice long vacation on the ranch -- not to mention for the down home cooking!

This is my favorite book of all times!!!

This was such a great book!! My sister originally got this book from the library and was reading it to me. I said that is so good--let me read it for myself! After that there was no going back. I bought the book and now I read it at least once a year. The book doesn't go too fast and warms your heart. You've got to read this if you're a contemporary romance fan!!

Sensitive man unlocks innocent's heart

One of my all-time favorite books! It was among the first of this author's that I read. I loved the characters--particularly Theresa. I could personally identify with some of her trauma of being "well endowed." The ending made you believe that dreams come true. As you read, you become one with Theresa and Brian. My one wish is that Ms. Spencer would write a sequel. I've always wanted to know what happened to Theresa and Brian, as well as her brother Jeff and his girlfriend old "Glue Eyes!"