Review: Slow Burn Romance with a Tension-Filled Ending
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2012
I enjoyed this book. Too many times in a romance novel, the hero/heroine fall madly in love at the drop of a hat, over an unrealistically short period of time. That is not the case in "You Belong To Me." I liked how the relationship took time to build, how hero/heroine (who had a lot of emotional baggage to deal with) needed to work through several things on an emotional level before finding their happily-ever-after.There is an external threat element that makes the book a little bit of a "woman in jeopardy" type story, but the book was probably a 70/30 mix of romance to suspense (the villain being the sort to bide his time, revenge best served cold etc.), and primarily focused on the hero/heroine relationship.That said, you always had this sense of foreboding while reading, even when the events seemed happy, like a dark cloud hovering over the couple, which made me want to keep turning the pages to see what was going to happen next. Because I knew the hammer had to fall sometime. And boy did it!The story packs a wallop in the final chapters when everything comes to a head. Very emotional in parts, I had tears in my eyes. It's a story of love, loss and hope that I found hard to put down.