Review: Just OK
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
This is the third book I've read in the "The Mountains" series by Ms. Singer.And, I'm sorry to say, I was a bit disappointed.Some series grow and mature as more books are added. Others tend to peter out from lack of energy and creative plotting. Unfortunately, this book is one of the latter - at least for me.The last two books followed the saga of Jake and Kurt. This one starts a whole new direction in which a minor character from the previous two becomes the main one, with cameos (which seemed just a bit out of place and forced, especially the incomprehensible threesome that opens the book) by Jake and Kurt.I wish Mark were more interesting, and the conflicts more exciting. The only villain in this piece is Melanie Underwood, wife of the owner of the mountain, who got her butt booted out when it came to light that she was sleeping with hunky ski instructors who were not her husband. Her retribution was to implicate the boys, and her husband, in a conspiracy to cause an avalanche that killed her ski-instructor du jour, in the previous book. Needless to say, there was no such conspiracy, and only God Himself could actually arrange an avalanche, so the threat is not all that great.In the meantime, Mark starts a relationship with Allan, the proprietor of a food-catering company, and the worst that happens is that Allan falls, skiing, and Mark nurses him until he can't stand Mark's smothering mothering any more.That's it. That's the whole book except, of course, for the inevitable HEA.And that's just the problem - not enough happens to be really interesting, and the characters are not all that engaging, as the characters in the previous books were.I don't know if I'll even read the next book in the series. I guess it depends on whether, or not, I can ascertain that Ms. Singer has, once again, gotten her "mojo" back.