What can I say about this book? It was fantastic! Clay Cordell had a very hard life growing up with a father that hated him. Hailey Lambert grew up with a father that made her fight for her rights to work on his ranch. Both had a childhood that was planted on rocky soil but when Hailey takes a job on Clay's ranch she has a feeling of coming home and Clay's life is turned upside down. The road is rocky for them both. Can Clay learn to trust? Can Hailey give her heart freely? Find out in this beautiful story of two hearts coming together as one. This is one of those books I'd really like to leave a four-star rating for, but just can't. I liked the characters and the story; I believe the author is a good storyteller. But she needs to learn more about the mechanics of writing, in my opinion, and could benefit from a good editor.To be specific, the point of view changes in the book made my head spin. I can't count the number of times I had to stop and reread an entire page in order to determine who "he" or "she" was in a given paragraph. A chapter might start in the heroine's point of view, but a few paragraphs later you're inside the hero's head, and then on the next page in another character's head...and all with no scene change. It was mind-boggling.Here's an example:[We are currently in the head of Hailey, our heroine.]...For such a short night, she had awakened feeling more rested than she had ever felt in her life. And strangely satisfied...that was puzzling.He knew she was watching him and it unnerved him just a little, and irritated him a lot. [Now we're in Clay's head. In the very next sentence!]There were also a lot of other issues with the book such as exposition, punctuation, verb tense, etc. But the head-hopping was the most frustrating, and one the author needs to work on.
What do You think about Taming Clay (2012)?
A Fun read, to counteract "The Monuments Men" and WWII.
—Samso
Ugh! Weak plot line. Weak main characters.
—noodles
