Texan's Dream (McClain Series #5) Book

A frustrating read, and often boring. An Irish gal, Karina O'Reilly, shortened to Kara, kept blowing hot and cold on Jonathan Catlin, her boss. Meanwhile, he blew hot and cold right back! Several silly squabbles. In the end, I simply didn't care about their relationship.

Jonathan was initially portrayed as a cold, hard, killer with no friends, no love, etc. But in reality, the author completely countered her initial portrayal. Jonathan was kind and loyal, with a loving sister and several very good friends and in-laws.

Poorly written. Repetitive. Too much focus on mundane details, like the detailed shopping trip in Kansas City.

The language was sometimes absurd. Kara would say "aye" and incorrectly use "me" whenever she got mad, just to sound more Irish, but the rest of her syntax was classic standard English. Her green eyes would flash every time she got mad, just to remind us she is Irish. Sigh. Her father, an Irish immigrant, puts her on a train, telling her to "lose the accent" (a modern expression) and to "be careful in whom you trust." ("whom" -- I kid you not).

Also, I could not like how Thomas referred to Angela as "the old maid" repeatedly. Especially irritating was when Thomas would use Angela's name and also refer to her as the old maid, all in the same sentence, something like this non quote: "Angela seemed happy, but the old maid would not leave her room after sunset." Character development for Angela was just bizarre! Thomas initially portrayed her as shy and yet kind, tall and a bit plump. Later she called her "a withered and misanthropic old maid." Sloppy work!

Incomplete plot. Big unanswered question: Who was shooting the old guard? Sloppy!! Also, it seems very unlikely that some cowboys know where the red flowers grew, and picked them for the main house, but they told no one about the secret place on the ranch??

Multiple courtships. Four couples get together in this story. A happy ending for all. Much too trite. Some of these stories were potentially deep, especially Quil's, but it gets an easy enough HEA.

Some typos, not too bad, but each paragraph was set apart with two line spaces. This occurred in the entire book, an irritating formatting glitch.