Review: Mixed Review
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 28, 2011
I picked this because it was a Kindle freebie, and I like the adoption scenario. It was my first McLinn.I liked the plotline, the hero discovering that he had a teenage son he never knew about and going "undercover" to meet him. But the writing was a little jerky, disjointed. And as a romance, this didn't work for me, primarily because I didn't like the heroine. Spending time with her grew more and more tiresome. And the author dragged out their story too long; the book was three quarters over before they became intimately involved and there wasn't anything else happening to compensate for the waiting time. I did like the hero initially, but I was a little weary of him by the end, too. And I didn't really understand why his behaviour and actions were the only ones that people felt free to criticize and correct - continuously.Actually, not understanding the characters' behaviours was an increasing problem. They never reacted in a way that made sense to me. The things that upset me they didn't notice, and the things that upset them didn't ring true. The last half of this book seemed interminable.However, there was some potential here. I liked all the secondary characters, which means the author CAN create people about whom I care. This book was written in the mid-90's. I am going to look for another by McLinn with a more current publication date and determine if the faults above were simply those of a new writer.