Review: Didn't work for me
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2012
This romantic mystery began decently enough. The heroine, Cora, is waiting for her father in a cafe for a dinner date. She begins to worry when he doesn't show and she can't reach him by phone. It's completely unlike him to not contact Cora if he has a problem. When she can no longer stand the worry Cora leaves. When she gets outside she runs into the hero of the story, Nick. There's an immediate attraction between the two, but Cora is also a little wary of the way Nick behaves. She becomes suspicious of Nick when he tells her that her father is unable to make their dinner. She manages to brush him off and then follows him to see if she can find her father. This is when Cora finds herself in a world of trouble she never saw coming. Threats are made, kidnapping is involved, embezzlement of a million dollars takes place, bad guys abound, and a chase is on. Who can really be trusted, and who is truly evil?The mystery part of the book is good. The author added several attention grabbing plot twists throughout. She also builds up tense moments in the book where the reader questions the outcome. However, the romance part of the book is lacking. The reader is supposed to believe Nick and Cora develop an intense desire for each other just because the author says they do. She never really shows this connection in the story. One moment we read where Cora distrusts Nick entirely, questions if she should trust him, to she's sorry she distrusted him altogether. They fall into bed with one another fairly quick. It just didn't seem believable.I do wonder if an editor read this story prior to going public with the book. There were so many errors that it became ridiculous. Word tense was often out of whack, verb agreement was completely off at times, and words were just dropped causing sentences to end abrubtly without making sense. It took me a while to figure out what the author meant a few times. This caused the story to drag and lost my interest multiple times. Examples of the writing . . ."Cora thought she felt him shaking and realized that he was chocked up with tears.""Immediately Alexander's eyes narrowed and his nostrils flawed.""They wore fairly nice clothes and had that high maintenance boy band hair with their hangs hanging down.""He slid back from Cora and out of bed, resisting the urge to kiss her check."There are many more examples like this throughout the book.Normally, I try to rate a book by deciding if I would ever read it again. I'm sorry to say this book is not one I would ever open a second time. I would advise an edit of the book to get rid of the story stopping flaws.