Review: Difficult time plowing through and then it was a cliffhanger...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2014
Although the author can write and shows potential talent, the story line seemed all over the place and I'm going to have to agree with "100meows" that it was erratic and clumsy. I stopped reading numerous times to take a break from it, but finally pushed my way to the end only to find that there were no conclusions. This is a series. I view a book as a story with an ending. When I bought this, nothing in the description led me to think that this was a cliffhanger.The plot has lots of potential, but the the story line doesn't flow well and I think it's because too much was thrown in that wasn't really needed. At the beginning of the book, the author tried to keep too many facts a secret which added to the confusion in the story, and some of the secrecy didn't need to be "secret".  It simply made it harder to understand the characters' motivations. Everyone has money problems. Everyone has doubts. No one is communicating. There is a tendency to have the characters act immature. You have our heroine performing kitchen table surgery due to a blizzard but when the weather clears and there's a complication she drives 3 hours to the patient versus having the patient taken to a hospital. Same Dr keeps a flask of whiskey for courage. She's supposed to be strong, but somehow she comes off less than admirable. I'm still not quite sure what or who the hero was supposed to be as his character wasn't fleshed out enough.Between a blizzard, an appendectomy, a car crash, a wolf attack, a horse in barb wire, multiple deaths, multiple debt issues, an attempted rape, twin telepathy and so on and so on, the actual plot of the story gets lost. The excess drama needs to be edited out and the there should be more focus on the plot which is sporadically touched on. I get the feeling that with proper editing this story would make a good book; the sad part is the story gets lost among the erratic drama.Romantic suspense is my favorite genre, but I just can't push myself to read any more of the series even though it ended in a cliffhanger.