Kim H. (rubberducky) reviewed on 5/15/2009 + 79 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

A good book that really could have been so much better. I think it suffered from inadequate tension building between the H&H. They don't appear to like each other much for most of the first half, in spite of their mutually growing - AND mutually annoying - curiosity about each other. The first love scene, when it finally shows up at about the halfway point, almost comes as a surprise. I was of the impression that Ranney just sort of threw it in there when she realized that the story was starting to lag. The hero was lovely and as tortured as you could possibly wish, and the heroine, while original, was never fully developed enough to completely sympathize with. I also noticed that with this book, much like her previous book - The Devil Wears Tartan - Ranney showed an annoying tendency to sort of shortcut some of the drama she spent much of the earlier portions of the book building up to - apparently in favor of a somewhat rushed and glossed over ending. This, probably more than any other little flaw, really annoys me, because I know that she's capable of so much more. As the writer of at least two of my all-time favorite romance novels, she can, and has, done much better with so much less. I wondered a couple of times if she "accidentally" slapped a little extra padding on the summary and published it instead of the real story:P
However, I still recommend it, mainly because it's Karen Ranney! - and for all of its shortcomings, it's still a pretty decent book and worth a read.
Grade: B+
Sensuality Rating - PG-13

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