Review: Not necessary POV but still nice to revisit these characters
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2014
I read the first two in this series very shortly after their release(s), know I greatly enjoyed both, but have not revisited either since. When I got the Amazon alert that Mary Whitney, an author of whom I have grown terribly fond (her writing -- I know nothing of her personally, though I might like her in person too, qui sait?) had a new release I purchased it tout de suite. Mary Whitney is like Rosalind James for me -- a go-to romance author for readers who are smart, strong, worldly, and who like characters (both female and male) to be smart, strong, worldly. Oh, I think I'll now add Penny Reid to that list, although her characters tend to be younger and daffier, and also off-the-charts brilliant, but no matter: I like reading romances with such bright, capable female leads (and the men who love them).All that encomium aside, I'm not sure this book needed to be written; I'm not sure Adam's story needed to be told. I did start out saying I haven't recently reread the previous two in this series, but as memory serves we got just about everything in the second, or at least my "memory serves" that to be the case. One of Mary Whitney's strengths is how much she shows us, not tells us: I mean she gives us their dialogue, not tells us "they talked" or whatever. So I remember feeling as if I understood Adam before. Maybe at some point I'll reread #2. Maybe.However I'm always glad to read a book by this author and purchase it so she knows she has a dedicated following and will keep writing.I do want to add that, in addition to the dialogue, one of my favorite things from this author is that she does not employ that stupid, trite, overused, embarrassing majuscule-T Tension ~75% into the story. She creates real-world characters who are adult and behave in an adult fashion. As an adult myself, I love that. I love not rolling my eyes and thinking "I canNOT believe I am reading this [unbelievable] tension again!"