Review: A Mistake
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2012
I bought this book because it was 99 cents and the reviews were good. It was a mistake. Before this one, I had purchased and read a short paranormal romance story by Thea Harrison.  I wrote a positive review because her short story did all it was supposed to do.  It quickly engaged the reader in the story and had good character and plot development, and satisfied the reader at the end.  I'm not a writer, but I think it would be more difficult to do this in a short story.Ms. Chastain tried to throw too many things into her short story.  It meant that the characters talked a lot describing what had happened in the past; she should have picked a story line that needed less explanation.  And, as one reviewer said, the villains were too over the top and unbelievable.  But the worse plot line was in the beginning of the book when the heroine finds the wounded naked man in the snow, and decides she needs to take off both her nightgown and housecoat to put under him and then throw her naked body on top of him to keep him warm. I'm not making this up. That was so illogical that I knew I had made a bad purchasing decision.