Review: Good Kristen Ashley installment!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2013
I am a huge Kristen Ashley fan. I have read all of her books. I have not , however, been happy with her books since she got a publisher and edited all the "Kristen Ashley" out of the books. By that , I mean, they cut her books typical lengthy descriptions of what her characters looked like, where they went to eat and what the restaurant was like, how their home looked etc. They also edited out her long , satisfying epilogues which I love.This book however, is the first since getting a publisher that felt more like a Kristen Ashley book. The length was short for one of her books and the descriptions were not as lengthy , but good enough. The characters in this book ( Zara and Graham) were lovers in the past and Graham comes back to town nine years later to find Zara destitute. Graham and Zara had kept up with and seen each other over the years, but when Zara married someone else they lost contact for three years but Graham kept tabs on her. Graham was the only one for Zara but he could not commit years ago, so she does not expect him to stick around now. Graham, to me, is a non-motorcycle club version of Tack, ( from her motorcycle man book) in the way he acts and speaks. Zara is a heroine that is not annoying like half of Kristen Ashley's heroines. Their story picks up after Graham has left her years before so we don't get to see their relationship from the start which would have made for a better story ( in my opinion). Zara's abusive family comes into play and off the story goes from there. I kept waiting for the requisite heroine kidnapping or being shot and stabbed part of the story that Kristen always likes to give us. That never happened and really, I did not miss it. We don't get our beautiful epilogue here which I hate. overall a really good story though. It had our typical hot and heavy sex scenes ( at least the don't edit out those!)