Review: Old-fashioned romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
Winter’s Embrace is a romance between Winter and Stone. Stone broke Winter’s heart ten years ago, but now he wants her back. I had a hard time connecting with Winter’s character. Winter shut her life down after Stone broke her heart and just stopped living. Now that she can finally have him back, she’s not sure what to do. She goes back and forth so much it was like reading a tennis match. Stone wasn’t much better. Between his lack of communication skills and inability to say I’m sorry  and Winter’s wishwashiness, it read like an immature high school romance.The story idea for Winter’s Embrace is very appealing. Unfortunately, Ball fell into the writer’s trap of telling us the story instead of showing us. Putting Winter’s Romance in the Western Romance genre is a bit misleading. Although the second half of the novel does take place on a ranch, the action centers on the two characters and could have happened at any remote location.I recommend this book for lovers of old-fashioned romance stories.