Review: Snowbound - was eh...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2011
Storyline has two pretty strong characters but they come across more as caricatures. True,they both have a 'trauma' in their pasts which have supposedly created the individuals they are today but the descriptions of those traumas and how they formed the leading characters struck me more as convenience to the storyline than a true character forming experiences. Maybe that was because the hero & heroine struck me as so cardboard cut-out.This is supposedly an action/romance/thriller type and while there was a great deal of action, it was thrown out and then glossed over so quickly that just as you were getting into it the leading characters, Mallory & Gage, had gotten themselves out of their supposed fix - that simple! And, they do get into quite a few scrapes for such a short novella.I guess what struck me the most was that Mallory is an FBI agent & Gage a PD Captain, yet they were forever being followed, found, attacked - you get the idea. Neither of them seemed very competent or knowledgeable.The supposed chemistry between Mallory & Gage never read as real. Indeed, for the 1st 1/2 of the story he wants nothing to do with her. Then suddenly he's got to have her, at least in his bed. Mallory on the other hand wants Gage from the get go, even though he does his level best to be unfriendly and downright nasty upon occasion.Words of advice to the author. There is some great potential with this storyline, if it were fleshed out a lot more. More careful editing needs to be conducted as several errors left me scratching my head and re-reading a passage (or four). Conduct a little more research into the CJ fields & agencies before you write about them. Also, the sex scenes were very mild - almost as though the author felt she had to quickly throw them in but wasn't quite sure how to go about it.For the price, you can't go wrong. It is what it is. I've read much worse. But I've also read better.