Review: Too much was missing....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2013
I liked the plot line of the book - Ashton, a former marine turned rancher saves the day by stopping a convicted rapist and murderer after he escapes with a hostage (Brie).  Ashton takes unconscious Brie home and when she wakes up, she thinks she is still kidnapped and tries to escape, starting the back and forth "romance" between the H/h.This book has all the components of an alpha-male romance (including the initial issues, the tough hero, and then the cliffhanger before the HEA), but the writing is inconsistent and lacks enough detail to draw a picture for the reader and the plausibility of the circumstances are hard to overcome as a result.  There are too many missing pieces to make the reader get sucked into the characters (for example, the heroine went from angry and upset with Ash on one page to wondering if he were her soulmate a couple pages later, then to seducing him in the shower a couple more pages later with no way for the reader to understand why she changed her mind so fast).  If the book was erotica, there would have been more sex and more explicit writing, so I think the author was going for alpha-male romance - to pull it off completely, it really did need to have fewer gaps in the details.I noticed this was a self published book and think the author had some good ideas in the plot - I just think the book would have benefited from an editor.