Review: Easy reading - much better than I expected
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2012
This was an enjoyable book with enough twists and turns and interesting characters to keep my attention. I read a lot of action packed espionage/assassin thrillers and sometimes have a need to read something lighter. I got this book on a freebie day and I was nearly put off reading it as I was suspicious of the small number of one paragraph "I liked this book" vanilla 5 star reviews.Basically this is a romantic novel (longer than I expected) with a bit of suspense and family tragedy added on. It is about 2 flawed and emotionally damaged people who found it difficult to understand and cope with their intense attraction to one another. Roxanne is an A1 TV personality recovering from the apparent suicide of her recently divorced husband and bitter financial and personal disputes with his family. Barry is a professional basketball star, another A1 personality who is so motivated by his commitment to the game that he has little time for his young daughter from a failed marriage.The intense attraction between them is sometimes steamy, but that is only a small part of the story (the book cover is a bit of a teaser). It is only when both parties are faced with their own personal dramatic emergencies that they start to understand and help one another.I am not keen on sport and found the basketball coverage and the overwhelming motivation to win both difficult to understand and boring. The excessive media attention to a sports personality's life is also foreign to me. These factors make me give the book a personal 3.5 stars, but as I know others think differently about sport I have given the book 4 stars.When I need to read something outside my normal genre again I will have a look at Stephanie Queen's other books.