Review: Roxanne Snopek Builds Believable Small Towns
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2013
Y'all are going to get tired of me saying this, but I swear, Entangled puts out some of the most awesome books around. They might be a baby-aged company, but man-oh-man, they did things RIGHT! (And I'm not saying that just 'cause I want them as a publisher myself). This is another fabulous book. I have yet to come up with a book from Entangled that was less than 3.5 stars, I believe (don't quote me on that).Mitch needs a fiance quick when a billionaire turns her sights on Mitch as the perfect match for her step-daughter. He doesn't want the girl, nor does he want to mix love with the business he hopes to get from said billionaire. So, when the billionaire sets her sights on buying land in Mitch's home town (that he hasn't seen in many years), who does he hit upon to be his fake fiance? His old girlfriend, of course. She's none too fond of him, but she agrees. Little does he know that she wants to make him pay for hurting her all those years ago by running out on her after she said she had a miscarriage.There are some misunderstandings, of course, and a lot of talking that they really should have done many years ago, but they were both too young when they first got together and they probably did the right thing by calling things off (though I nearly bawled at the miscarriage story). The billionaire proved to be suitably bitchy, and I liked how they added characters from the town. Mitch certainly did the right thing with how he ended up resolving the billionaire's "evil" (not really, but suitably town-wreckish enough to earn her the title of villain) plans for the ranch she wanted Mitch to develop for her.The heat in this book was so low as to be non-existent. It's lovely to read a book that doesn't hype sex and have it all over the place. When Mitch and Sabrina finally do let the tension simmering between them boil over, it's done behind closed doors and I appreciated that. We don't need blatant, explicit sex in every book. Clearly Entangled understands that by publishing books like this.So, this book got a 4-star rating from me and I will no doubt look up Ms. Snopek again in the future. There were certainly enough secondary characters she can write about that I'll find my way back to the Three Rivers Ranch again.