Review: Superficial Characters, Shallow Plotlines, Yet Still Charming
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
Starting off, this story had better bite as far as plot was concerned. I thought the desperation of Maude's situation was well done. The only trouble I had (have) with the writing is how the plot development to the climax of the story seemed to ramp up quickly, shoot out with no real reasoning, and be over with surprisingly little fanfare. Seems just like a first time sexual experience, if you ask me. I know a lot of romance novels (historicals in particular) tend to make a big to do over that scene. But this author's novels seem to have a similar style throughout. They're quickly written, not developed in plot for anything but a superficial level- they kind of remind me of magazine serials like Reader's Digest used to publish.I have trouble with the characters not at least getting to know one another (or if they don't they should at least be troubled that they don't know each other before getting busy in the bed at the drop of a dime. I'm not saying to take away the sex either, but at least give us some substance to the story ... and don't insult our intelligence with the easy orgasms all the time. Make that fellow work for it a little. Reluctant brides are easier to bring to the heat of temptation than ones who just lay there like duvets and don't participate if you ask me (Of course, that is my opinion, not a fact). If I want to like a heroine, she's got to have a little more to her than a blind sheep following wherever her libido leads her. Come on!But I have to confess something. I like Ms. Osbourne's stories. They're kind of growing on me. That isn't saying much as I read series romances like most people chew sugarless gum. These stories do not take long to read (seriously for me it's less than three hours total to get through this little thing), and I am finding that I don't mind the superficiality when the story is so short. Light, sweet and to the point. They're kind of like sitcom-romances (like a rom-com except not particularly funny and very brief).If you like quick stories with likable characters and a shallow plot, these are the stories for you. Don't judge me because I will keep reading them. I'm a sucker for series novels (though these are so quick I could just about read them all through in one afternoon if I had them all-working on that now).