Review: Bare but Blah
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2012
I almost put this one down before finishing, to be honest.  Maybe I'm just more interested in historical romances, but this just didn't do much for me.  The voice was like a first person account, but in third person, and the writing style was just kind of plain.  Too telly, I think.  Nothing really special about this story, no laugh-out-loud moments, sizzling sex (although there was sex, just not sizzling) or any big surprises. I figured out who the antagonist was pretty easily, although I flirted with one other possibility that might actually have added a twist. I can't really remember what the male lead looked like and I just put the book down a couple of hours ago.I was going to say that maybe this was a promising author and this was a first effort, but I see she has several novels out already.  Better than I've done, so far, so at least she is a finisher.  The premise had a lot of potential to be something like Chocolat (sp?  It's been a while) but it just didn't have that transformational effect.  Nothing really glaring wrong with it, just a little blah.  Sorry to be so tough, Lacey, but it's all in love.  Take a vacation and try a new venue next time?