Review: Not enough for me.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2012
Raith Malloy has better things to do then fantasize about the gorgeous attorney Willow DeVane. Except he can't seem to do anything but that exactly. She gets under his skin with every word she shoots his way but he can't seem to leave her alone. Knowing she is out there unprotected grates at him until him finally finds himself in the arms of the sexy attorney.Willow is a tough divorce attorney but that doesn't mean she isn't a lush woman too. When she is attacked she doesn't want to accept Raith's help but feels she needs to call his bluff on offering to teach her self defense. What she doesn't realize is that while there is a stalker on the loose, she really needs to be protecting her heart from the grumpy cop.I really liked the premise of this book however I found it to be riddled with things that rubbed me the wrong way. First off Raith. I love take charge alpha guys but I never got past how completely mean and awful Raith is to Willow throughout the entire book. I have never seen two more prickly characters. They constantly are fighting. Constantly giving each other snide comments and hurting each others feelings. Over-thinking everything imaginable and working on assumptions about every person they see the other with. I think they went way past the banter and straight into annoying territory. I spent a lot of my time shaking my head at their conversations. Raith is condescending about everything to Willow. Yes, she deserved a lot of it with her immature behavior but wow...I think if a guy talked to me like Raith talked to Willow, first I'd knock his head off and then I'd kick him out of my house. I don't care how good the sex is. But she takes it. Raith is like some kind of sick drug to her. She doesn't like him, they fight, and yet she keeps taking it because the sex is great.From the blurb the book sounds like a romantic suspense however I didn't see it as such. Willow is attacked in the courthouse at the very beginning and yet that has nothing to do with the actual plot. Its convenient yes, but you never hear or see the guy responsible after that incident. Instead we get two minor altercations through out the book before something big happens. In between this is completely a contemporary romance. The threat seems to pop up when its needed but if it were a sustained threat it would have worked much better with the genre.There needed to be more happening to Willow on the stalker front then the feeble tricks that we got.The level of writing was pretty good but I wouldn't say it was on the level that a lot of romantic suspense authors at your local bookstore are at. Some of the conversations felt jilted and incomplete. The characters didn't feel rounded and so they came off to me as one dimensional. There were a few spots in the book that I really enjoyed but they seemed to be few and far between . While I wanted to like this one much more then I did, my problems connecting with the characters left me wanting more from the book then what I was given.I give The Right To Remain Mine by Linda Kage 2.75 starsNikki - Ramblings From A Chaotic Mind