Review: Great premise, unfortunate execution
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2014
First of all, don't judge this book by the cover art.  It is NOT a torrid western romance.  Two characters, both damaged and feeling incapable of love, are thrown together as doctors in a frontier town.  Their struggles are somewhat compelling, and not the typical romance fare.  These two are intellectually matched well, and the story, until the final chapters, is quite chaste.  Then it all sort of falls apart. The ending seems rushed, as though the author just had to tie things up to meet a deadline.  The sex scenes at the novel's end are not explicit enough to satisfy readers looking for that sort of thing, but too much for those of us that would prefer to use our own imaginations.  I felt like someone told the author to spice things up at the end.  Not only did these scenes seem incongruous with the rest of the novel, but the whole tenor was off. Instead of two people cherishing one another, we were presented with the scenario of "let me show you how to please a man".  Really?  Not,"You are amazing and I've wanted to be with you” but rather, "this is what satisfies me".  A sad conclusion to an otherwise interesting read.