Review: The characters stay with you… 4.5 stars!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2014
Daniel’s Decision is book four in the multi-author series Emerald Springs Legacy. While it is a stand-alone story, it definitely whets your appetite for more of the Emerald Springs characters and stories. Flockton did a good job of weaving in secondary characters from the series in interesting ways, making the reader want to know more without a feeling of having missed something important.It was necessary to interrupt my reading of this several times, but I found myself hurrying to get back to the story each time. I read this story several weeks ago, but the story and the characters have stayed with me. At times I still find myself wondering about the characters and what they are doing. This usually doesn’t happen to me until I’ve read several books in a series. This is the only book in this series I have read so far, but the others are in my TBR waiting patiently.I was glad to see Flockton successfully avoided falling back on angst-filled characters with a lot of baggage when developing the hero and heroine. Instead, both characters are career-oriented and determined not to get involved with each other, making the fall that much harder. No, that’s not a spoiler—this is a romance, and by definition, there will a happy for now or happy ever after ending. This is not to say the characters don’t have baggage; they do. In fact, my first impression of the hero was not a favorable one until I recognized middle child “syndrome”, and once he was away from his family and focusing on his fact-finding trip, he quickly won me over.The main characters have good chemistry, and I would gladly take the hero if the heroine decided she didn’t want him. The “green” facets added to the story without being preachy, and the Australia spa resort setting for most of the story almost becomes a character itself.There was a touch of predictability in places, but I feel it added realism to the story and gave it the “possible fantasy” aspect that allows the reader to live vicariously through the characters. The story leaves the reader wondering about a series puzzle, and I am looking forward to seeing how it gets resolved in the next book.Entertaining, fast-paced, characters who stay with you, a touch of suspense, a dash of humor, and chemistry in a sensual heat level all add up to a story I enjoyed quite a bit and makes me want to read more in the series. Good job, Ms. Flockton, for keeping me thinking about your story several weeks after reading it.I was given a copy by the author in exchange for an honest review.