Review: PLEASANT READ, BUT A BIT SLOW
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2012
Sarah a romance writer has signed up to stay on a ranch for research purposes for her book. When she arrives she realises that the ranch owner is the cover model she met at a photo shoot. At that meeting there had been an embarrassing incident in a coffe shop with him. That incident had left her with a poor impression of him, so she does not feel that she can stay. But having sprained her ankle after her hire car broke down on the journey to the ranch she is stuck.This is a pleasant enough read. The storyline is okay. The characters are not very well developed which was a disappointment. Sarah the heroine seemd extremely unworldly for a woman of almost forty years old, she certainly had an awful lot of issues about herself, and was not confident at all. Sage the hero was a much more rounded character. I felt the story meandered off into other areas away from the two protangonists too often. The incident that so upset Sarah in the beginning of the story leaving her angry at Sage, was not that big of a deal, and Sarah's reaction was a bit OTT and not entirely believeable. The supporting characters were one dimentional, some of the scenes in this story were funny while others were a bit twee. This is a contemporary story, but it feels more like a period romance. I like it when a relationship builds gradually in a story, but it was a bit too slow here for my liking, although I did get that it was because the heroine had so many hang-ups. Not a bad read. But this has not inspired me enough to check out the other book available in this series.