Review: Nocturne Reads: I was torn with this one
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 18, 2013
Quite frankly, I was torn with this one.  The tag line of "Romantica" was very true for this story.  The steam was moderate, but the story was driven more on the romance, or lack thereof...Silent Hawk is a man changing his ways.  His Apache mother wants more for him and herself.  She divorced his dad due to his drinking and when she moved on, she did so leaving Silent Hawk with his father.  Hawk sowed his wild oats, but when his half-sister died, he devoted his life to her memory.  Now Hawk and his mother are breeding fantastic horses and planning to open a therapeutic ranch for terminally ill children.  Unfortunately, Hawk and Jo have just met and their fledgling relationship would never stand up to Jo returning with Hawk to the therapy ranch...only a few minutes away from everyone and everything that made her run.Jo was not my kind of gal.  She was too scared of her parents, too afraid of her own shadow and too insecure in her own self-worth.  There were several TSTL (too stupid to live) moments that had me grunting in disgust.  But when the truth all came out, I was much happier and the HEA came too.  If you love the angst of new love where the couple guess what the other is thinking instead of outright saying it...you will like this one.  The side characters are really good and the writing is very believable...for me it was just Jo that had me full of angst!  Enjoy!