Review: Home Run
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2014
"Catching Hell" is the second in Mindy Klasky’s new series “Diamond Brides”.  Each of these is a standalone novel but share a common theme.  This offering is Anna and Zack’s story.These are contemporary romances taking place in Raleigh North Carolina.  They revolve around the Raleigh Rockets Baseball Team with its male players providing the male lead.  In this particular story the female is the team owner’s granddaughter and heir apparent.  While the team is fictional Ms. Klasky has a good job of weaving it into the Major League.Since I strive to keep my reviews spoiler free and try to give more of an idea of the author’s style and ability I will limit plot descriptions to that above.  So first let me say the story that unfolds is a pleasant fun read.  Mindy has a real talent as a story teller and I enjoy both her sense of humor and her ability to produce not only readable but natural dialog.  She has created a series that will appeal to a fairly broad audience.  This is pretty standard romance as far as language and situation so if you are not offended by prime time TV you should be fine with this.These are short novels so they don’t take a long time to read.  They have both a light romantic plot and some fairly steamy but not overly graphic love scenes.  The characters are well developed and the stories are well focused on the main characters without an excess of superfluous characters.  The plots move well.  These are well suited for those who like to finish a book in a sitting or two.Now for the disclaimers.  I was offered an advanced copy of this book for a fair and honest review.  I will admit I have read other books by Mindy and have enjoyed all I have tried.  I also am not her normal demographic being older and older retired male.  I originally started read her Jane Madison paranormal series.  As a lifelong fantasy reader I have gotten a kick out of that series and have been working my way through her catalog.I find now that I am retired that I like to read other genres that authors work in to get a better idea of the author.  Surprising myself that I find many romantic comedies or light romances to be quite entertaining.  Ms. Klasky has not disappointed and I found myself not only liking this book but I also went and grabbed the first in the series “Perfect Pitch” (99cents right now).  I will be looking forward to seeing where this series goes as there are quite a future books planned.  Now I am off to review Perfect Pitch and I apologize but I can’t resist…  So it’s time to Play Ball!