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alboyer6's review against another edition
2.0
Having read other books in the Montana Creeds series, I had pretty high expectations but this one just didn't live up to them. It had a lot of build up but then the relationship story between Tricia and Connor seemed forced. I actually preferred the side stories about Tricia's Great Grandmother and tension between Connor and his twin brother.
jbarr5's review against another edition
5.0
Creed's Honor by Linda Lael Miller
Tricia had to go to Colorado to deal with her fathers land and camp grounds.
While there she had several offers on the old outdoor movie theater and
land. The offers came from each of the twin boys.
Her great grandmother has an offer of a place to stay with a friend who is nearer
to her age with same interests.
When she returned to Seattle she went to see the guy she had had a few dates
with and he was with a female already. She was there to turn down his offer
to go on a cruise and open a gallery together.
She was now free to pursue her interest with one of the twins she had a
crush on in Colorado.
Connor helped the neighbors who needed his help, wrapping water pipes, fixing
things in their houses, helping bring boxes of goods to sell at the local
chili dinner/yard sale for the new uniforms for the band.
Brody was the wild twin and didn't stay in one place for very long.
Tricia stays at Connor's family house and Brody finds out exploding it all out
of proportion.
Tricia had to go to Colorado to deal with her fathers land and camp grounds.
While there she had several offers on the old outdoor movie theater and
land. The offers came from each of the twin boys.
Her great grandmother has an offer of a place to stay with a friend who is nearer
to her age with same interests.
When she returned to Seattle she went to see the guy she had had a few dates
with and he was with a female already. She was there to turn down his offer
to go on a cruise and open a gallery together.
She was now free to pursue her interest with one of the twins she had a
crush on in Colorado.
Connor helped the neighbors who needed his help, wrapping water pipes, fixing
things in their houses, helping bring boxes of goods to sell at the local
chili dinner/yard sale for the new uniforms for the band.
Brody was the wild twin and didn't stay in one place for very long.
Tricia stays at Connor's family house and Brody finds out exploding it all out
of proportion.
jscarpa14's review
3.0
***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS***
Connor Creed has lived on the same ranch since he was born and has been running that ranch since he came of age. He’s got honor and roots so deep that can’t be unburied, but he doesn’t have the one thing he wants more than anything – love, a wife, children and a family and he doesn’t have the time to go searching for it. Tricia McCall is only in town until she can sell the three small businesses her Dad left to her when he died and have the money to move back to Seattle to her life, her friends and her long time boyfriend Hunter. She doesn’t intend on being attracted to one of the Creed twins she watched from a distance when she came to visit her Dad every summer. And she certainly doesn’t intend on sticking around to develop a relationship with a man less likely to leave Lonesome Bend Colorado than any other resident. But after a year and a half there’s still been no bids on the property and the more she runs into the sexy rancher the more drawn to him she is. But when someone offers to buy the properties like she’s been hoping for all along can she still leave like she planned?
I truly hate giving a book three stars, you wouldn’t realize that because I do it often, but three stars is my lump rating. I can’t bring myself to give a book without what I think of as waste of money flaws a rating lower than three stars whether I liked the book or not. I can’t however make myself give a book that I enjoyed but felt has some definite major flaws to it four stars. Four stars are meant for the books that have a few issues but are destined to be favorites, five stars are for the books that are practically perfect, two stars are for books that are in my opinion a complete waste of money but something you might be able to at least force yourself to finish and while I’ve never given a one star that’s for the books that nothing under any circumstances could get you to keep turning those pages. I don’t think I could finish a novel and give it a one star. That leaves those poor books in the category of three a mixed of good books with some major flaws to them and bad books that aren’t necessarily a waste of money but are definitely not something on which I’d like to spend mine. It’s unfortunate that the average rating system does not include six stars and allow us to separate that poor middle of the line group. Someday I’ll think of some way to differentiate between the two at least on the blog, but for now I’ll just feel guilty about the poor three star books.
Creed’s Honor is one of those books which is not necessarily terrible, but definitely one I didn’t much enjoy reading. First of all so far in this little trilogy Miller has shown a consistent pattern of the women changing their plans or their lives to fit the men and of course being wonderfully happy that they gave everything up for said man. The man of course is perfect as is and has no changes to make and though I like Connor more than I cared for Steven whose only appeal to me was the way he interacted with Matt and the fact he was sexy, the simple idea that the woman must revolve her life around the man’s is to me outright offensive. I mean I know a lot of women that say they wish their man would pick up a romance novel sometime maybe they’d learn a few things, but based on the first two novels in the series these are the last two books on earth I’d want a man learning about romance from. The love story in this book is almost nonexistent and completely unrealistic. For more than half the book the characters have causal run ins with each other, when they fall into bed together it isn’t like some heated thing that makes sense but is rather just kind of thrown in there and on their first actual date he proposes. It’s basically the equivalent of falling in love with a casual acquaintance who you randomly decide to jump the bones of and that of course makes you realize that everything you thought about your life was wrong because honestly, really truly honestly down deep this casual acquaintance you barely know is your soul mate and you LA -U-OV him. And yes I know just butchered the world love, but I wanted you to hear in your head as three syllable sarcastic pronounced word. Seriously I’ve seen more spark between coworkers who’d never consider dating each other than between the two leading characters in this novel. Hell I’ve had work relationships like the above mentioned that had more spark and that’s with guys I’d never in a million years consider getting involved with physically or emotionally, just coworkers I’ve enjoyed verbally sparing with or joking around with. Based on Miller’s portrayal of love I should have jumped into bed with and married each and every one of them because they just MUST have been my true love. Though the story was more than a string of sex scenes and didn’t in fact have a ton of them, the love story was completely ludicrous. And to top matters off this story, like the last one included the “gifted” child who since they are described as such don’t act like normal children and that’s okay. This particular child was 10 and legally had to ride in a booster seat because that’s of course normal for a 10 year old. I think the last time any of my kids had booster seats they were six, seven tops and I don’t have large children, in fact my boys are the smallest in their grades. I wouldn’t risk losing my kids so I know for a fact it’s perfectly legal for them not to have booster seats. My eleven year old daughter would die of embarrassment and never get into a vehicle if she thought for a moment she had to ride in a booster seat. And by the way her gifted ten year old character had less maturity than my above average eight year old son if that gives you an idea at how badly Miller creates child characters. I could have seen it if the character wasn’t allowed to ride in the front seat, kids aren’t supposed to because of air bags, but a ten year old in a booster seat? Ten anymore is about when the lines start blurring between little girl and young woman. They still play with their dolls but not as often and they still want their parents, but their friends are starting to rank almost as high in esteem. It’s that age when you start having to pry a little to learn about their lives instead of listening to them talk nonstop of every little thing that happened in school. It’s that age when you start finding notes from boys in their things and they talk about boyfriends and are in love with the idea of marriage. It’s that age when they make you’re realize you’re half done parenting them and halfway toward being put on a shelf that only gets random attention and phone calls when they think of it. It’s the age where you realize you sometimes have to be the enemy to make sure they turn out okay in the long run and while it’s only just now starting to happen occasionally it’s only going to get worse before it gets better. It is not the age where they talk about riding in a booster seat. Honestly if a writer doesn’t remember what it’s like to be around children they shouldn’t try to portray them in novels for the cute factor. It’s downright irritating. Miller portrayal of a ten year old come across more like a six or seven year old tops and isn’t in anyway gifted though she’s referred to as such. When my daughter turned nine I learned that Justice was the new Nike and it was now cool to pay $30 for a t-shirt and I just wasn’t cool because she was lucky to get one or two of that brand name a year because I don’t want to pay $60 for a pair of jeans that will be lucky to make it past one school year. And I learned I wasn’t cool because even though I let her have a Facebook she wasn’t allowed to actually post or chat or message, but could only play some of the games which didn’t have chat functions. I became the evil mother because I worry about the idea of internet predators preying on my children and I don’t let my kids go play at a strangers house and they’re like the ONLY ones at school who haven’t spent the night with almost every kid in the class. So yeah I remember ten years old because that’s the point when the little girl starts breaking her mother’s heart without even realizing it because mom isn’t as important anymore and mom’s rules are more of a hindrance than a protection. To any mom that’s been through ten years old recently the portrayal is insulting because ten and every age after sucks and you really want to go back to eight or seven or even better infancy. I’d happily change a million dirty diapers just to have my little girl still look at me like I’d hung the moon and watch her whole face light up every time I walked into a room and I’m pretty sure there are a lot of parents who have children in those blurring lines ages that would say the same. So enough of my depressing rant, my point is the kid isn’t realistic. There isn’t as much going on in the plot as the last novel, but at the same time the book was more like entering small town life than reading a love story and there really wasn’t much to that plot at all.
The characters are well developed however, each distinct with memorable positive and negative traits. This can be said for both the male and female leads and the numerous secondary characters. In fact in my personal opinion some of the secondary characters were more interesting than the male and female lead. I’d personally love to read about Natty and her Henry and the crazy life that came after. And I’m so looking forward to Brody’s story because he’s the most interesting Creed I’ve seen in this series.
Overall I can’t recommend the book but if you like contemporary western romance you might enjoy it because Miller is an established and talented writer so I can’t say her story won’t find fans and people that it appeals to.
Connor Creed has lived on the same ranch since he was born and has been running that ranch since he came of age. He’s got honor and roots so deep that can’t be unburied, but he doesn’t have the one thing he wants more than anything – love, a wife, children and a family and he doesn’t have the time to go searching for it. Tricia McCall is only in town until she can sell the three small businesses her Dad left to her when he died and have the money to move back to Seattle to her life, her friends and her long time boyfriend Hunter. She doesn’t intend on being attracted to one of the Creed twins she watched from a distance when she came to visit her Dad every summer. And she certainly doesn’t intend on sticking around to develop a relationship with a man less likely to leave Lonesome Bend Colorado than any other resident. But after a year and a half there’s still been no bids on the property and the more she runs into the sexy rancher the more drawn to him she is. But when someone offers to buy the properties like she’s been hoping for all along can she still leave like she planned?
I truly hate giving a book three stars, you wouldn’t realize that because I do it often, but three stars is my lump rating. I can’t bring myself to give a book without what I think of as waste of money flaws a rating lower than three stars whether I liked the book or not. I can’t however make myself give a book that I enjoyed but felt has some definite major flaws to it four stars. Four stars are meant for the books that have a few issues but are destined to be favorites, five stars are for the books that are practically perfect, two stars are for books that are in my opinion a complete waste of money but something you might be able to at least force yourself to finish and while I’ve never given a one star that’s for the books that nothing under any circumstances could get you to keep turning those pages. I don’t think I could finish a novel and give it a one star. That leaves those poor books in the category of three a mixed of good books with some major flaws to them and bad books that aren’t necessarily a waste of money but are definitely not something on which I’d like to spend mine. It’s unfortunate that the average rating system does not include six stars and allow us to separate that poor middle of the line group. Someday I’ll think of some way to differentiate between the two at least on the blog, but for now I’ll just feel guilty about the poor three star books.
Creed’s Honor is one of those books which is not necessarily terrible, but definitely one I didn’t much enjoy reading. First of all so far in this little trilogy Miller has shown a consistent pattern of the women changing their plans or their lives to fit the men and of course being wonderfully happy that they gave everything up for said man. The man of course is perfect as is and has no changes to make and though I like Connor more than I cared for Steven whose only appeal to me was the way he interacted with Matt and the fact he was sexy, the simple idea that the woman must revolve her life around the man’s is to me outright offensive. I mean I know a lot of women that say they wish their man would pick up a romance novel sometime maybe they’d learn a few things, but based on the first two novels in the series these are the last two books on earth I’d want a man learning about romance from. The love story in this book is almost nonexistent and completely unrealistic. For more than half the book the characters have causal run ins with each other, when they fall into bed together it isn’t like some heated thing that makes sense but is rather just kind of thrown in there and on their first actual date he proposes. It’s basically the equivalent of falling in love with a casual acquaintance who you randomly decide to jump the bones of and that of course makes you realize that everything you thought about your life was wrong because honestly, really truly honestly down deep this casual acquaintance you barely know is your soul mate and you LA -U-OV him. And yes I know just butchered the world love, but I wanted you to hear in your head as three syllable sarcastic pronounced word. Seriously I’ve seen more spark between coworkers who’d never consider dating each other than between the two leading characters in this novel. Hell I’ve had work relationships like the above mentioned that had more spark and that’s with guys I’d never in a million years consider getting involved with physically or emotionally, just coworkers I’ve enjoyed verbally sparing with or joking around with. Based on Miller’s portrayal of love I should have jumped into bed with and married each and every one of them because they just MUST have been my true love. Though the story was more than a string of sex scenes and didn’t in fact have a ton of them, the love story was completely ludicrous. And to top matters off this story, like the last one included the “gifted” child who since they are described as such don’t act like normal children and that’s okay. This particular child was 10 and legally had to ride in a booster seat because that’s of course normal for a 10 year old. I think the last time any of my kids had booster seats they were six, seven tops and I don’t have large children, in fact my boys are the smallest in their grades. I wouldn’t risk losing my kids so I know for a fact it’s perfectly legal for them not to have booster seats. My eleven year old daughter would die of embarrassment and never get into a vehicle if she thought for a moment she had to ride in a booster seat. And by the way her gifted ten year old character had less maturity than my above average eight year old son if that gives you an idea at how badly Miller creates child characters. I could have seen it if the character wasn’t allowed to ride in the front seat, kids aren’t supposed to because of air bags, but a ten year old in a booster seat? Ten anymore is about when the lines start blurring between little girl and young woman. They still play with their dolls but not as often and they still want their parents, but their friends are starting to rank almost as high in esteem. It’s that age when you start having to pry a little to learn about their lives instead of listening to them talk nonstop of every little thing that happened in school. It’s that age when you start finding notes from boys in their things and they talk about boyfriends and are in love with the idea of marriage. It’s that age when they make you’re realize you’re half done parenting them and halfway toward being put on a shelf that only gets random attention and phone calls when they think of it. It’s the age where you realize you sometimes have to be the enemy to make sure they turn out okay in the long run and while it’s only just now starting to happen occasionally it’s only going to get worse before it gets better. It is not the age where they talk about riding in a booster seat. Honestly if a writer doesn’t remember what it’s like to be around children they shouldn’t try to portray them in novels for the cute factor. It’s downright irritating. Miller portrayal of a ten year old come across more like a six or seven year old tops and isn’t in anyway gifted though she’s referred to as such. When my daughter turned nine I learned that Justice was the new Nike and it was now cool to pay $30 for a t-shirt and I just wasn’t cool because she was lucky to get one or two of that brand name a year because I don’t want to pay $60 for a pair of jeans that will be lucky to make it past one school year. And I learned I wasn’t cool because even though I let her have a Facebook she wasn’t allowed to actually post or chat or message, but could only play some of the games which didn’t have chat functions. I became the evil mother because I worry about the idea of internet predators preying on my children and I don’t let my kids go play at a strangers house and they’re like the ONLY ones at school who haven’t spent the night with almost every kid in the class. So yeah I remember ten years old because that’s the point when the little girl starts breaking her mother’s heart without even realizing it because mom isn’t as important anymore and mom’s rules are more of a hindrance than a protection. To any mom that’s been through ten years old recently the portrayal is insulting because ten and every age after sucks and you really want to go back to eight or seven or even better infancy. I’d happily change a million dirty diapers just to have my little girl still look at me like I’d hung the moon and watch her whole face light up every time I walked into a room and I’m pretty sure there are a lot of parents who have children in those blurring lines ages that would say the same. So enough of my depressing rant, my point is the kid isn’t realistic. There isn’t as much going on in the plot as the last novel, but at the same time the book was more like entering small town life than reading a love story and there really wasn’t much to that plot at all.
The characters are well developed however, each distinct with memorable positive and negative traits. This can be said for both the male and female leads and the numerous secondary characters. In fact in my personal opinion some of the secondary characters were more interesting than the male and female lead. I’d personally love to read about Natty and her Henry and the crazy life that came after. And I’m so looking forward to Brody’s story because he’s the most interesting Creed I’ve seen in this series.
Overall I can’t recommend the book but if you like contemporary western romance you might enjoy it because Miller is an established and talented writer so I can’t say her story won’t find fans and people that it appeals to.
dukefn99's review against another edition
4.0
http://romancing-the-book.com/2011/05/review-creeds-honor-by-linda-lael-miller.html
thegeekyblogger's review against another edition
4.0
Received for Review
Overall Rating 4.00
Character Rating 4.25
Story Rating 3.75
Note: This is the 2nd in this series by Linda Lael Miller with Conner being the Creed in the lead. This was such a sweet,down home love story that makes you smile when finished reading.
What I Loved: Conner and Tricia are both great leading characters. The attraction between them is sizzling but they both deny it from the beginning. I must warn that this is a slow building romance, they only have casual conversations in the beginning of the book. Valentino is the best dog-gone character in the book. If I didn't know better, I would say that dog was matchmaking like nobody's business and having Sasha and Natty help.Plus, there is a good dose of Brody in the book and that is a great thing!
What I Liked: I am excited about the next book in the series: The Creed Legacy after getting to see more of Brody (need the story behind where he has been) and Carolyn (whose friendship with Tricia I loved). Plus, getting see Boston and Melissa again in this book was really great. I just can't wait to see how it all ends.
Complaints: Not enough Natty and Sasha (she was fantastically precious).
Why I gave it a 4: This story just made me feel good all over because of the richness of the characters. I really cared about what happened to Conner, Tricia, Natty, Sasha, Brody, and Carolyn.
Overall Rating 4.00
Character Rating 4.25
Story Rating 3.75
Note: This is the 2nd in this series by Linda Lael Miller with Conner being the Creed in the lead. This was such a sweet,down home love story that makes you smile when finished reading.
What I Loved: Conner and Tricia are both great leading characters. The attraction between them is sizzling but they both deny it from the beginning. I must warn that this is a slow building romance, they only have casual conversations in the beginning of the book. Valentino is the best dog-gone character in the book. If I didn't know better, I would say that dog was matchmaking like nobody's business and having Sasha and Natty help.Plus, there is a good dose of Brody in the book and that is a great thing!
What I Liked: I am excited about the next book in the series: The Creed Legacy after getting to see more of Brody (need the story behind where he has been) and Carolyn (whose friendship with Tricia I loved). Plus, getting see Boston and Melissa again in this book was really great. I just can't wait to see how it all ends.
Complaints: Not enough Natty and Sasha (she was fantastically precious).
Why I gave it a 4: This story just made me feel good all over because of the richness of the characters. I really cared about what happened to Conner, Tricia, Natty, Sasha, Brody, and Carolyn.
tasha_fullybooked's review against another edition
4.0
Conner and Tricia had a mutual attraction to one another, but I think it started with Tricia first and then Conner noticed her. Tricia is just in Lonesome Bend temporarily while Conner is looking for some one for the long haul. Problem is, not only is Tricia planning to leave Lonesome Bend for the bright lights of Seattle, but she also has a guy waiting back there for her return.
I enjoyed the interaction between these two. Both of them were interested, but meither would act upon it. Conner is a strong, solid man that any women would love to have, and when he loves, he loves deeply. Both characters are likeable in their own right apart from each as well as together.
Conner's relationship with his brother has always intrigued me. Withe Creed's Honor, we get to see a lot more as to what went wrong with these two. I've always liked both Brody and Conner, and I so look forward to his story. There were a lot of little teasers into Brody's character that I look forward to exploring.
As always, another great smokin' hot cowboy by Linda Lael Miller!
I enjoyed the interaction between these two. Both of them were interested, but meither would act upon it. Conner is a strong, solid man that any women would love to have, and when he loves, he loves deeply. Both characters are likeable in their own right apart from each as well as together.
Conner's relationship with his brother has always intrigued me. Withe Creed's Honor, we get to see a lot more as to what went wrong with these two. I've always liked both Brody and Conner, and I so look forward to his story. There were a lot of little teasers into Brody's character that I look forward to exploring.
As always, another great smokin' hot cowboy by Linda Lael Miller!
cmrams's review against another edition
2.0
Even for a cheesy romance novel, this one was pretty lame.
pkrebs's review against another edition
2.0
This book was lame. It started off good, but her books have become so formulaic -- there always has to be a dog, a kid.
SPOILERS! ??
The kid was unnecessary to this story as it wasn't either of the main characters. Then since there is a kid around, the main characters barely spend any time together and then suddenly, because it is getting to the right page in the book, they admit they are in love. I didn't really love Connor or the girl, whose name I can't remember now, but Connor has a twin brother, Brody, whom I found the most interesting character in the book. The next book in the series is about him, so I am anxious to read that and then take a break from Linda Lael Miller for a little while and get into some other books.
Most of her books are very enjoyable however.
SPOILERS! ??
The kid was unnecessary to this story as it wasn't either of the main characters. Then since there is a kid around, the main characters barely spend any time together and then suddenly, because it is getting to the right page in the book, they admit they are in love. I didn't really love Connor or the girl, whose name I can't remember now, but Connor has a twin brother, Brody, whom I found the most interesting character in the book. The next book in the series is about him, so I am anxious to read that and then take a break from Linda Lael Miller for a little while and get into some other books.
Most of her books are very enjoyable however.
lumbermouth's review against another edition
3.0
Cowboy fucker set in Colorado, basically a win. Nothing earth shattering, but there was an adopted dog!