Helpful Score: 1
This romance kind of fits into Palmers Long Tall Texans series, and it focuses on the romance between two very damaged people: police chief Cash Grier and model/actress Tippy Moore. These characters were previously mentioned in Palmers book Lawless, so reading that beforehand might help, as Tippys character undergoes a lot of development between the two books. In Lawless, shes a spoiled Hollywood celebrity; in Renegade, shes an unassuming actress with a lot of skeletons in her closet and a younger brother shes desperately trying to protect from her mother and stepfather.
Ive railed against Palmers writing before, but here she crafts an interesting character study of two people who are afraid to fall in love with each other. Tippys story is beyond heartbreaking: repeatedly raped at the hands of her mothers boyfriend, Tippy becomes afraid of men in a literal sense. Cashs father sent him off to military school after his stepmother spread lies about him. Both deeply distrust each other and the opposite sex in general. Rory, Tippys brother, tries to play matchmaker between the two.
The book does suffer somewhat from pedestrian writing; Palmer has a habit of repeating phrases and words over and over again. Like author Lori Wick, Palmer also introduces many minor characters (some of whom are residents of her fictitious town, Jacobsville, TX) but they dont add anything to the story. Apart from that, this book is less superficial than some of her other books and the bonds that Tippy and Cash develop over the course of the story make this book worth seeking out.
Ive railed against Palmers writing before, but here she crafts an interesting character study of two people who are afraid to fall in love with each other. Tippys story is beyond heartbreaking: repeatedly raped at the hands of her mothers boyfriend, Tippy becomes afraid of men in a literal sense. Cashs father sent him off to military school after his stepmother spread lies about him. Both deeply distrust each other and the opposite sex in general. Rory, Tippys brother, tries to play matchmaker between the two.
The book does suffer somewhat from pedestrian writing; Palmer has a habit of repeating phrases and words over and over again. Like author Lori Wick, Palmer also introduces many minor characters (some of whom are residents of her fictitious town, Jacobsville, TX) but they dont add anything to the story. Apart from that, this book is less superficial than some of her other books and the bonds that Tippy and Cash develop over the course of the story make this book worth seeking out.
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