Review: Great plot
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2012
I read this as part of theBeaumont Brides Collection (Wild Justice, Wild Lady, Wild Fire)collection on Kindle. I enjoyed it very much both as a romance story and for the suspense of discovering who was responsible for threatening Claudia's life. (It wasn't who I thought it would be!)Claudia Beaumont is an actress who seems to have acquired a stalker. Gabriel "Mac" MacIntyre takes it upon himself to protect her, even though he doesn't like her very much. He thinks he knows exactly what she's all about. She lets him think what he likes and doesn't bother to correct his mistaken assumptions about her. Only when he learns to look beneath the surface and trust her will he ever get to see and know the real Claudia.The only thing I thought could have been done better was when Claudia finally lets her guard down with Gabriel. The writing doesn't seem powerful enough or emotional enough at that point, and it felt a bit like an anticlimax. The dialogue shows her skimming over her story and not going into the details that were hinted at earlier, so it doesn't convey how painful or traumatic her experiences have been. **SPOILER** For example, earlier there is a mention about her mother's rages but then when Claudia talks to Gabriel, she never mentions that, only that her father "suffered". It was too vague and insufficient to explain why she is the way she is.The plot was very well-woven from the suspense point of view. Many times I thought, "This is it" and figured things had been resolved, but they weren't! As I mentioned, early on in the story I thought I had figured out who the stalker was, but I was wrong.In the Beaumont Brides collection which I purchased, there were a few typos but sparse enough to overlook. There is only one sex scene and it is not very explicit.