Review: A disappointment
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2013
Looking for a light, pleasant story, I read this book last night, but was quite disappointed. I know the romantic genre has traditional and "necessary" elements - the nasty ex-wife/girlfriend, the gorgeous hunk with childhood/military/whatever issues (naturally!) and the misunderstood heroine who has secrets of her own. The Boat Builder's Bed had all of these, but unfortunately, for me they did not amalgamate into a satisfying read.From the beginning, the characters could only think about lusting after each other's bodies, so much so that at least 90% of the book depicted this. The other 10% had a few background characters - the heroine's daughter and mother, a few paragraphs devoted to the heroine's best friend, but the rest was filled endlessly with sexy thoughts and/or rampant sex. I realise that the novel was not supposed to be an in-depth read, but there was nothing else to it.The other aspect which really annoyed me as an Australian, was the Americanisms - "mom" and "butt" - probably included for the American market. I think Americans are quite able to work out what "mum" and "bum" stand for, so I wish the author had remained true to, what I have to assume from reading her bio, her New Zealand nationality.