Review: going against the 5 stars but NO passion or romance & very lacking
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2013
I have to go against the 5 and 4 star reviews here and say this was not a great book.  The story lines all fell short, I couldn't feel the passion between the two main characters.  The storyline has Jake a grieving widow who lost his pregnant soon to be wife years ago take in Faith, a single mom with an 8 year son after her house was burned down.  The book started off good, Faiths house was burned down and Jake a volunteer fire fighter offers Faith and her son a place to stay for the night since no one else in the town would help.  Jake is a loner, still grieving his lost.  All we know about Faith is she got pregnant at 16 and was kicked out of her house by her father and the whole town including the father of the baby.  So Jake plays the hero for the night, you see how hard it is for him to have a "family" in his house since he lost his, he struggles and practically ignores Faith's son because of his pain.  This is where the book starts to fall short.  I am reading thinking this book has potential.. who started the fire??, who is the father to her son??, how will Jake get over his grief??, what will finally spark their passion?????possible SPOILERS to some people.........All of a sudden the next day Jake realized he was lonely and needed to move on, Faith found Jake attractive but I didn't feel any passion between them.  We get maybe a paragraph of who the father of the 8 year old son is and who burned down the house and than thats it, very disappointing!!!  Jake & Faith fall into bed together, which was not that exciting or hot sex ( I was actually kinda of bored, i have read much better) and the next day Jake is acting like the father the 8 year old never had and he is in love with Faith and talking about marriage, no more mention of his grief.  Faith didn't seem concerned who burned down her house anymore.  Faith is ready to trust him completely and of course in all romances you have your happily every after and that was it.  I felt cheated and thankful it was free.I have read this author before, I enjoyed & liked her other story and books.  I was surprised and very disappointed this book was so lacking in all areas but got so many 4 and 5 star reviews.  Everybody reads and views a book in different ways, which is why I like reading & writing reviews.  I personally only give 5 stars to books that just blow me out of the water.  I almost gave 1 star but since I did like the characters and maybe the first chapter I bumped it up to 2 stars.  I would not recommend as a book to pay for, maybe if its still free and you have nothing better to do.