Review: I liked the idea.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2013
While I understood Marquita Valentine's Third Time's a Charm I felt she did not explore further the story of two long awaited Holland Springs characters. Alexander (Sasha ) Romanov and Rose Holland's story brought together the two mysterious characters from the previous Holland Springs novels. In my opinion I loved the story even though it played as a touch of the film Practical Magic with its trope of everyone in the small town firmly believing to the point of mythical legend in the women of the Holland family as witches with the ability ensnare men in their web. Valentine's story worked for me and was funny, sexy and just plain sweet at times especially when Sasha momentarily suspended his deceptive manipulations to romance Rose. I just felt that the backstory of Sasha being the product of an interracial marriage was a bit much and actually went against Valentine's story here. As a person of color I found it somewhat unrealistic and I felt the author fell into a common mistake of many non-minority authors trying to write about this subject.The idea just doesn't equate because they either focus on the wrong area or in this case simply not hitting the mark at all. I gave this book three stars because I enjoyed the story as I did all of the Holland Springs series but I think it needed a little more polish on Sasha's long awaited back story.