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The Promise of Jenny Jones is a very original, good old fashion story. Jenny Jones is a unwomanly mule driver getting ready to go in front of a firing squad in Mexico because she killed a man defending herself from his advances. She won't lie to save herself because morally lying is wrong. Her reputation is that she would never break a promise, her word is all she has. She is alone in the world, poor, never been loved by anyone, but she has integrity. She makes a promise to a dying mother to take her spoiled, pampered 6 year old daughter and return her to her father in California. In exchange the mother will face the firing squad for Jenny Jones.
The story was inspiring with a good moral lesson. It was very clean with minimal sexual tension. It was more of an adventure then a romantic love story with shoot'em up gunfights as the H/h trailblazed across the old west terrain. It took me a while to buy into the love/sexual connection between the main characters, Ty and Jenny, mainly because Jenny was so homely. She was very large, manly, dirty, and she had lice so bad she had to chop off her hair- call me shallow but, that all seemed pretty hard to overcome. She was attractive in Ty's eyes though and it he made it believable. In the end the connection was beautiful and had me choked up. Graciela the 6 yr old was a pain in the butt!!, but she grew on me and her and Jenny learned a lot from each other.
I have read other books from this author and they seem to have the same kind of heroine, manly, downtrodden, yet strong sense of honor. There is some makeover but, doesn't seem to overly beautify them by the end.
The story was inspiring with a good moral lesson. It was very clean with minimal sexual tension. It was more of an adventure then a romantic love story with shoot'em up gunfights as the H/h trailblazed across the old west terrain. It took me a while to buy into the love/sexual connection between the main characters, Ty and Jenny, mainly because Jenny was so homely. She was very large, manly, dirty, and she had lice so bad she had to chop off her hair- call me shallow but, that all seemed pretty hard to overcome. She was attractive in Ty's eyes though and it he made it believable. In the end the connection was beautiful and had me choked up. Graciela the 6 yr old was a pain in the butt!!, but she grew on me and her and Jenny learned a lot from each other.
I have read other books from this author and they seem to have the same kind of heroine, manly, downtrodden, yet strong sense of honor. There is some makeover but, doesn't seem to overly beautify them by the end.
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