Review: Liked it better than "At Peace"
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2012
Warning Spoilers in this Review:I like the Kristen Ashely books where the heroine is smart, mature (unlike the female lead in Mystery Man) and helps the male lead with his problems as well as he helps her with hers; this is what you'll find in the character of Dusty whom I love.  Ashley thankfully did not repeat the same mistake she sometimes does with her female leads where they have to have the same line repeated to them 3 times before it sinks in (major problem I had with "The Gamble").The male lead, Mike Haines is great and I really, really like how he is smart and does not fall for games played by women.  Actually that's a very consistent trait (along with super alpha behavior of course) in all of Ashley's male leads and I think it's one of the things that keep me coming back to read her books.  I thought Ashley was really smart about someone like Haines who faces having to start life emotionally and financially over at 40 and how bought that is.  Because of this, I can't say I liked the epilogue with Dusty and him where they have two kids together as I didn't think it would have realistically created an HEA for him.  Starting a 2nd family again in his mid-40s just seemed to be asking too much.  i think it made sense in her "Law Man" as the two leads never had their own natural kids and were several years younger, but not here.  I liked it better how Ashley played it in "Wild Man" where the two boys of Brock's are enough for Tessa.  "Wild Man" is still my favorite of the Ashley books to date.Like other reviewers, I liked to side romance of Fin and Reesee and appreciated their epilogue.  They reminded me of Violet (from "At Peace") and her first husband but without the unplanned pregnancy (thankfully).