Review: AN AMUSING AND SWEET SHORT READ....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2013
One Night at the Spa by Kathy Lyons was an amusing and sweet short read.  What it lacked was heat between the characters.  While David (who is a beta hero) insists he has been in love with Kim for some time, there was little sizzle between them.  The relationship as friends, and later as lovers, was too comfortable.  Kim's issues with her own sexuality might be technically correct, but it was too easy an excuse and the reason given made her seem too conveniently ignorant of sexuality in general.  The tension and drama are more from external forces, not the inherent issues with moving a good friendship into a different sphere.This is a shorter read and it seems to have caused a lack of depth in both the characters and the plot.  Where there is backstory, it seems to be built in for the express purpose of explanation rather than organically part of the whole.  Actions and motives seem to be more designed to move the story to an inevitable conclusion than what feels right for the characters.  Had this been a longer story, it might have had the space to expand into better characterization with fewer convenient excuses.RATING: 3Heat Rating:  MildREVIEWED BY: Monique Neaves