Review: Romance got lost in the story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2012
I like a clean romance. But I pick up a romance novel because I hope to enjoy just that--a romance novel. The romance in this story is slow and the characters do not seem to have to have much physical chemistry between them. I wasn't looking for bodice-ripping female porn, but the "sweetness" of this story, completely devoid of tension made the romance quite forgetable. The writer does a good job of describing Rafe's awkwardness around women. He comes across as endearing and sweet, but the relationhship between him and Adele plods along at a painstakingly slow pace. By the time I got to seventy percent of the book, the main characters just didn't seem to have that much chemistry and tension to keep the story going. I was more interested in the subplot than Adele and Rafe's story. I hope this writer keeps writing. I am always on the hunt for a clean historical romance, but perhaps she needs to build the relationship between the main characters in a way that goes beyond occasionally describing feelings.