Review: A Really Enjoyable Romantic Suspense Novel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2013
I just finished reading A Time To Live.  I bought it a few hours ago and couldn't put it down, mainly because I enjoyed the love story between the terminally ill Nikki and the half Arapaho Michael.  I enjoyed the setting, the plot, and the characters.  Nikki has been betrayed by her unfaithful cancer research doctor/lover and has moved from Los Angeles to Colorado to die in peace away from the hospital.  She meets Michael, a half French/half Arapaho man who is an outsider in his community after being suspected of raping a local woman and killing his ex-wife and an ex-girlfriend.  Nikki, against the advice of the locals, believes he is innocent but doesn't want a relationship with him since she has only a few months to live.A Time to Live wasn't terribly suspenseful. The author, Kathryn Loch, gave several obvious clues to the bad guy's identity as the story progressed.  The ending was not surprising to me.  However, I really enjoyed the journey. I liked it as much as a Mary Higgins Clarke book.For those of you who care about such things...The main characters are attracted to each other from the start, but the romance builds naturally and gradually during the first two-thirds of the book.There is a very small amount of pre-marital sex, which is tastefully written and not graphic.  In other words, there are no slang words for private parts mentioned.Although the story involves a serial killer, again, no graphic details are given.I found a few editing mistakes that didn't distract from the story.  The writing flows smoothly otherwise.  Reading this story was time well spent, and I would read more of this author's books.