Title: Hers Forever (1995)
Author: Wendy Garrett (Zebra)
Period: American-Jacksonian (1847 St. Louis)
Grade: D-
Hers Forever represents two things that used to be true about romances. Riverboat romances set along the Mississippi once held a place along side Native American and Antebellum/Civil War locales as the most common in the American genre. Also, romances novels used to have plots that resembled entire season of Melrose Place complete with amnesia, kidnappings, secret babies, and spouses back from the dead. Melodrama can be sweetly sentimental or hilarious campy. Hers Forever is neither of those. It is a giant cliché sandwich with a healthy side of trite.
Cari Fremont's late husband and brother-in-law have used her as a pawn in their (unexplained) power plays against each other. After her husband and son's (alleged) deaths her evil brother-in-law is determined to make her his mistress. Cari thwarts his plan by becoming the mistress to his arch business rival, Dominic Saxton. The brother-in-law schemes, an annoyingly plucky orphan girl is adopted, people rise from the dead, and it all ends happily in the end. At least it would if the reader gave a rat's ass about any of these people or their tired, predictable romance.
Yawn.
Cari Fremont's late husband and brother-in-law have used her as a pawn in their (unexplained) power plays against each other. After her husband and son's (alleged) deaths her evil brother-in-law is determined to make her his mistress. Cari thwarts his plan by becoming the mistress to his arch business rival, Dominic Saxton. The brother-in-law schemes, an annoyingly plucky orphan girl is adopted, people rise from the dead, and it all ends happily in the end. At least it would if the reader gave a rat's ass about any of these people or their tired, predictable romance.
Yawn.
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