Achieve No Quarter Asked (Cord Stacy #1) Depicted By Janet Dailey Provided As EPub

many typos

Story was good but reading was difficult due to the many typos and grammatical errors in this book, Example: the word wires instead of wives, and the numberin place of a letter, Very aggravating. When I think of retro romance, I think of authors like Janet Dailey, I remember seeing her books scattered around our house when I was little the Calder series rings a bell, and maybe something about planes But I dont remember ever reading one.


And now Im kind of glad I didnt, because reading a book like No Quarter Asked when I was an impressionable young girl couldve really cocked up my idea of what I thought a normal heterosexual relationship would be like.
First of all, a guy is automatically desirable, whether he actually is or not, He could be the biggest jerk in all jerkdom, but hes still desirable, Its just a given. Mostly because you wouldnt dare argue otherwise with him, Hed scowl at you and make you feel like a child, and then youd know, Yes, I want him, And a girl can be as smart and strong and stubborn as she wants, but when faced with said scowly guy, shes instantly brainless and inexplicably unable to defend herself with concrete, indisputable facts like, I actually havent been sheltered or pampered a day in my life, you obtuse bucket of rocks.
Instead, she crumples and says, “Well, if you say so, it must be true, ”

Sigh.

And thats my impression of Cord and Stacy in No Quarter Asked by Janet Dailey, Undoubtedly other Dailey books are different, but this one kind of made me crazy, It was Daileys first, and the first in a trilogy following these hapless characters, Which I suppose explains the insanely quick wrapup to this book, Like, a couple of paragraphs at most, Which is pretty much all the time the couple spends together alone, and yet twothirds of the way through Stacy realizes she loves him, This despite Cord berating and belittling her for the entire book, most of these interactions happening offstage so that we dont even get to experience the tension building between them.
Their mutual admiration is just kind of thrust upon us unexpectedly, Unless you realize youre reading a romance, If you didnt, though, I think youd be a bit confused, There are all sorts of ideas about semiotic codes that I could apply here, but Ill spare you the geekery,

However. This was written in the seventies, Im not going to say that was an unenlightened time because clearly in many ways it wasnt!, but maybe readers needed less work put into their heroes before they bought into the myth.
They read words like “rugged” and “angry” and “cowboy hat” and saw how the hero treated the heroine like a child and thought, Gimme gimme And maybe women did crumble that easily when growled at by big manly men, so readers could relate to heroines who did the same I doubt it, but whatevs.
Theres some reason for this authors popularity, and since it all started with this book, who am I to question

Besides, Dailey wrote No Quarter Asked because she said she could write a better romance than the ones she was reading and her husband dared her to follow through.
I suppose Ill have to take her word for it, What Dailey did prove through this novel and others was that the American western was a viable subgenre of romance, however, and that legacy continues to this day.
She also inadvertently proved you couldnt fool savvy readers with plagiarism, but thats another story, And also a legacy that, strangely, persists,

Ill give a quick idea of what the books about, and then you can decide, Stacy Adams was raised by her photographer father, travelling the world, but he died in a plane crash that she survived, To recover emotionally, she rents a cabin in Texas and hauls her spirited horse Diablo and her trusty dog Cajun from New York, Immediately she meets

up with her neighbour, Cord Harris, who doesnt think much of this city girl going off into the wilderness with no one to take care of her.
He thinks shes stupid for doing so, in fact, A common refrain among the men she encounters, and not just the backwards outdoors types,

Soon she proves Cord right with horse problems, and shes stuck staying at his house to pay off a debt Diablo incurred, This is the most interesting part of the book he tells her he expects her to help out on the farm like any of his other hands, and soon shes off on a twoday cattle drive.
She handles it perfectly, and we experience the Texas wilderness and the evolving west through her appreciative eyes, Cord begrudgingly admires how well shes stood up to the long days in the saddle, but also says that clearly she cant handle it, so he gives her the task of planning his annual horse sale instead, assuming that party planning is naturally in her skillset.
As usual, she doesnt bother telling him that it isnt at all the kind of thing she knows how to do, because what would be the point of that Argh!

At some point an old boyfriend comes to rescue her, because even though shes a stubborn soul and a hard worker and a good horsewoman somehow Cord the cowboy doesnt see that hes freaking her horse out every time he rushes up to save her from it, she always inexplicably needs rescuing.
Shes grateful to see a familiar face that, I understand but all of a sudden shes confused by her emotions, And by Cords emotions. Stupid assumptions and failures in communication continue, Until the very last page,

Blrrrgh. Maybe it just doesnt age well, And Im going to assume Daileys characterization improved, I think its important I find out, although the process may kill me little by little, Call it a summer project, Wish me luck.

Lila

ed from ARC provided by Open Road's Retro Reads program, Rereleased by Open Road Integrated Media April,,

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Another old school romance, I liked it except the ending was a bit adrupt, Would have been nice if we got a bit more of them after they revealed their feelings for each other, Or an epilogue would have been nice, I enjoyed the memories of the ''s even though shocked each time a cigarette was lit up but the story had little of interest to me, I've only recently become a fan of the romance genre so I skipped the early Janet Daley, There's a lot of potential but I just didn't see anything attractive about the brutish hero or the one minute arrogant one minute simpering heroine, No Quarter Asked by Janet Daley is aOpen Road Media Publication, I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review,
Stacy's father dies and she feels compelled to spend a little time alone to grieve and sort out what she should do next, An out of the way cabin in the Texas Valley seems the perfect place, Bringing along her high strung horse and her loyal dog, Stacy arrives and before she can even get to the cabin she has a run in with her landlord, Cord Harris.
From the very instant they set eyes on one another sparks fly, but not in a good way, Stacy's future dealings with Cord becomes more and more tense until Stacy actually comes to despise the man, . . or could it be something else about Cord that has Stacy so unsettled
This book was originally published inand is now available in digital format, This contemporary romance with a western tone was pretty typical stuff for the time period it was written in, The big male with a bad attitude toward women that decides to display and voice his displeasure toward them every chance he has, while the woman fights against the attacks.
The verbal sparring can be fun but it gets a little old if it goes on for too long, How on earth someone falls in love with a man that was so mean is beyond me, I think if it were me I would not be capable of feeling anything but anger toward a man that treated me so badly, This theme still crops up in contemporary romance but it's toned down quite a bit, I just felt Cord came on too strong, was too over the top , and Stacy's falling for him under those conditions didn't seem realistic, Again, the times were different then and so I took that into consideration, I liked that Stacy stood her ground and held her own in many trying cirumstances, I'm really on the fence about how to rate this one, I'm thinking.is about right but I will round it up to astar rating, I liked the synopsis of the book but it kind of let me down, Notwithstanding the typos, the characters didnt have chemistry but Im supposed to believe they love each other when they only exchange hate for each other, It is kind of an interesting set up, I just couldnt connect, Stacy needed time to adjust,
Stacy's world collapsed with the death of her father, She had to sort herself out decide what she wanted to do with her life,

The secluded cabin in a Texas valley seemed a perfect place to think, But when Stacy met the arrogant rancher, Cord Harris, all her hopes of peace and serenity vanished, Especially when Cord said, "Go back to the city, where you belong, "

It was exactly the wrong thing to say to Stacy, It made her fighting madand determined to stay! A mids Harlequin, Zero emotional connection between h/h, she thinks he rides roughshod over her, he is cold and distant, there are misunderstandings and all of a sudden they are in love, I like modern romances where you see his emotions and she isn't so dumb much better, Of course, it isyears old, No Quarter Asked, Bookof the Cord amp Stacy series, was about Stacy Adams, a New York "city girl", and Cord Harris, a rich Texas cowboy,
After losing her father, twentyyearold Stacy decided she needed time away from the big city to reflect on where her life was going, Her late father, the worldfamous freelance photographer, Joshua Adams, had taken her on his travels after her mother died refusing to leave her to be raised by other people.
They would return to New York City for respites, but then they would begin their travels anew when his next foreign assignment took place, Unable to face their home without him, she had chosen a cabin in Texas where she could gather her courage to face life without him,
When Stacy arrived in the small town she would be staying in, she almost immediately ran into Cord Harris, and for reasons unknown to her, he took an instant dislike to her.
Not long later, she learned that the cabin in which she would be staying belonged to him and that he would only be a short distance from her.

Cord, for his part, had a past that did not bode well for a city girl like Stacy, With a mother who couldn't handle the ranch life and an exfiancee who ran from him because she wanted more than living in the country where there were no social functions other than a country dance and a barbecue here and there.

This was definitely old school Harlequin story, where the big machomale dominated the poor little rich girl who didn't know how to live it rough, There were misconceptions, misunderstandings, and fights galore, with hardly any romance and very little chemistry between the two main characters, They rarely were in the same spot for any length of time, and definitely never enough for a romance to have bloomed,
While the author never stated Cord's age, it was hinted at several times that he was much older than Stacy'syears, so the way he treated her was mostly understandable if there were that many years between them.
He was a rough and tumble cowboy, through and through, and did not give her any quarter no quarter asked, right for making mistakes,
Stacy, though she was young, had already seen a great deal in her life, having traveled the globe with her father, She was a very headstrong young lady who did not like to be bossed around, However, she had no issue learning new things, or admitting when she was wrong,
It was a decent book, . . but there was no great passion or chemistry, though, It really didn't make sense, what with their interaction being so little, They didn't take time to get to know one another, They didn't have long conversations where they told each other about their pasts, their likes, dislikes, etc, There was no relationship whatsoever, so how does the author expect the reader to see a romance bloom from that Definitely not a fivestar worthy book, في الترجمة العربية سميت مزرعة الدموع
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