Review: Nice spin on the romance genre
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
Sara King never fails to write an engrossing novel, and while this might not be one of my favorites, it was a fun read.  It's your typical romance novel, girl hates/lusts-after-boy-at-first-sight, and dido for him, but they send out mixed signals because of their own person angsts.  Danger throws them together, the have to depend on each other, and so they finally get their signals straight, have lots of hot sex, and fall in love forever.What's different about Sara King's writing, is that her characters are three-dimensional, with more warts than most heroes and heroines would ever admit to, which of course endears them to us all the more.  Blaze, a young woman who inherits just enough money from her rich parents, to open up a fishing lodge in the wilds of Alaska.  The handsome handyman she hires is a cranky know-it-all who drives Blaze crazy until she finds out who and what he really is.What I liked about Blaze is that she's not the typical size zero, perfect young woman, but a shy and insecure 6 foot 4 inch, red-headed Amazon who finds out she was adopted after her parents found her as a newborn in the forest nestled in a pile of ashes.  Wondering just who and what Blaze was had me reading far into the night.Why I didn't give the wonderful Ms. King the full 5 stars is because I felt like the book tended to drag through the middle.  Also, I thought that when Blaze finally did merge from an ugly duckling to a swan, she might have had some issues with her new-found powers.  Jack was fearful of Blaze finding out the truth, but she seemed to just sail through it becoming even an even nicer person.  I couldn't help but think of the change that power can do to people, wondering if it would corrupt Blaze.One of the minor characters had a very interesting story which is continued in Alaskan Fury, which I am currently reading.  I'm finding this character more interesting than Blaze, probably because she had more darkness in her, which might say something about me . . .I have to say that I'm very happy to have discovered Sara King as a writer and I'm on my way to reading everything she's written, or will write in the future.