Review: Slow moving storyline
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2012
This story is about a pilot, Steve, who crash lands his plane while arriving in England.  He is in critical condition and is hospitalized.  Chloe, the heroine, works as a crisis worker of sorts.  She is assigned by her boss to help Steve recover. Somewhere along the way Steve wakes up and brief dialogue, that is not romantic in the slightest, occurs between the two lead characters.  The characters are stiff and dull.  I never did see any type of romantic connection develop between the two yet we are supposed to believe Chloe is falling in love.The story moves along painfully slow and honestly had me quite bored before reaching the 50% mark on my Kindle.  Even though this is a relatively short book it just dragged in parts.  I literally skipped pages trying to find something interesting.Chloe's job is to follow Steve back to America, where he lives, to finish her work in aiding in his recovery.  I tried my best, but I never could figure out exactly why Chloe was useful to or needed by Steve.  All Chloe ever does is sit in a chair by his bed or talk to him.  One time she did get him food.  That was it, dull.Even though the hero and his daughter Millie, we meet her later in the story, are both Americans they speak in British phrases quite often.  I wonder if the author is aware of the difference in British dialect versus American English dialect.  I've never heard an American teenager tell her father to "leave it out" or a father respond with "you cheeky so and so."  The language in the book just didn't work.  Maybe if the story happened completely in England or territories similar where such phrases are used it would have worked better.The story also felt old.  By that I mean it felt like it might have occurred back in the 1980s.  It sort of reads like an old Harlequin.  Although, the author did mention more modern times such as the poor economy and that Chloe was reading from her Kindle.I wish I could give the story a better rating, but it just fell flat for me.