THE HEART BREAKER (Rocky Mountain Brides Book 2)

This is better than the blurb states. The hero Sloan is widowed with a young daughter. His first wife was brutally murdered, but he needs a mother for the child. The part the blurb leaves out that makes this a bit more unique is that the mother was Native American, and he now wants to run for Senator after a brutal range war. So, he needs someone who isn't prejudiced yet can present herself to voters. Heather is trying to pay off her father's debts, but she was raised a lady and fits Sloan's requirements.Not everything goes smoothly. Sloan is a jerk for most of the book, and Heather struggles with her new family and environment, but the couple gloss over most of that in bed.It's not a perfect story, more 3.5 stars rounded up, but different enough that I mostly enjoyed it.

Sloan is heart broken over his wife's death. He feels responsible and will never forgive himself, so can not let himself love another woman. However he needs someone to help take care of his half breed daugther as well as keep house. I agreed that he was a jerk to Heather a most of times as he just does not know how to deal with his feelings, and feels he is betraying his first wife. You gotta feel for the guy when he finally breaks down and cries for his dead wife. Heather is the perfect lady who turns into a wild cat in bed. Love is not always roses, so I guess as in most reviews you just have to decide whether you want to chance it for yourself. You will either really love this book, or you will really hate this book because of the way he is. If you can look past him being a jerk because he feels like he is betraying his dead wife you may like the ending and feel like it was not a waste of time. He has his times where he is not bad, but he will not let himself give in to feelings. If you are just one of those people who want the hero to be perfect all the time. It is not for you.I love the extreme sex and inappropriate words, which other people say they don't like. Sloan leans towards being a dom. It makes the book hot. Yet again another thing people have to decide if they want to read it or not because of that. I also agreed with one reviewer if you think about it they can be pretty funny or pretty corny, but I love them anyway.Most of Nicole Jordan's books have a lot of sex. If that's not for you then her books are not for you. She is one of my favorites.I also wish she had published the third book in this series. The one about Wolf. Sloan's first wife's half brother. The first book is The Outlaw about Sloan's brother Jake. Also a good book. The Outlaw is the first I read that started me reading her books.

Favorite scene with Heather-This was a short scene, but the scene where Heather has a little chat with Sloan's political opponent. It really showed Heather's backbone.Favorite scene with Sloan-Drunk at the saloon. Della has to help him realize he loves Heather.Together-A drunken Sloan insulting Heather by offering to pay for sex after telling her she still owes him. A powerful, heartwrenching scene.What did you like about Heather-Her love for Janna. Her strength and courage.What didn't you like about Heather-I felt that Heather flip-flopped. She told Sloan not to touch her ever again, and then allowed him to have sex with her. That made her weak. She left Sloan and Janna, eventhough Sloan treated her cruelly.What did you like about Sloan-His love for Janna. His political views. People liked him naturally. He didn't have to force them to like him and vote for him.What didn't you like about Sloan-I understand that Sloan was grieving, but he had no right to treat Heather the way he did.If I had to cast Sloan, I'd cast Kiefer Sutherland.If I had to cast Heather, I'd cast Charlize Theron.You can read my blog for Sloan and Heather at [...]

Maybe three and a half stars. I did like this book. It kept me interested, although there was a lot about it that I resented. As with most reviews, I agree. The hero was not too likeable. It was bordering on emotional abuse and I agree, very annoying the way he grieved his dead wife through 90% of the book. The heroine was spineless and it took her 90% of the book before she even partially stood up to him, with one slap. "The Savage" was similar also. Another tortured, very bitter, angry hero who was mean to the heroine through most of the book, although I did like "The Savage" a bit more than this. Not too sure who was worse, the pathetic, spineless heroine or the angry, bitter hero, yet the story was interesting and kept you going. What I found hard to believe was how, a pampered, upper middle-class young lady could adapt to hard work on a ranch. She was an amazing cook? Come on! Washed dishes and laundry and toiled! What? That was a bit much. It would have been much more believable if the heroine was from a poor familiy with no prospects as I kept waiting for her to finally demand a housekeeper and she never did! All this aside, I would probably read it again. It made me want to read more of Ms. Jordan's older books from this time period. It was a bit ahead of it's time with the steamy love scenes, as was The Savage but this even more so, reminding me a bit of Nan Ryan and her very steamy Westerns.

3.5*Would have been 5* as it's not your typical tall, dark handsoem rich dude marries poor blonde bimboheroine is intelligent (speak multiple languages), highly educated, very beautiful and very sophisticated.hero isn't the usual rich dude saves the daythe problem i had with the book is that the heroine ought to have been way more vindictive. She's too nice. Not exactly a pushover but she easily forgivesthe hero is madly in love with the heroine, more so than he was with his ex wife, but he doesn't want to acknowledge ittheir attraction and the chemistry was off the page