Review: This book was an underwhelming reading experience
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2012
And that would be an understatement. I bought it on the strength of the excellent review by the reviewer whose tastes are usually pretty close to mine. Unfortunately this book turned out to be a case of very differing tastes. I love historicals, I love love historical mystery/suspense with the dash of romance weaved in, moreover it  really does not matter to me how prominent the romance is as long as there is some romance (or really none at  all). I was predisposed to like this book. Unfortunately I did not find it to be well written at all. I liked the beginning, it promised the excellent story, but then I thought that main characters (and some secondary ones too) lost their brains for the duration of the story and almost every action by Charlie and Gabe separately or together made me want to roll my eyes and slap them over their heads, multiple times.I also found that the whole story had a very chopped feel to me. One thing would happen and then without ANY connection something entirely different happens and I am left staring on the page and thinking HUH?Villains take the cake in this story though. I was prepared to see the homophobic violence of the small city when  started reading this story, but the main villains in this one are truly special characters, which I also felt did not have any brains.This book dissappointed me a great deal.