Review: The great writing was there
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2014
This barely makes it to 3. The great writing was there, but it just seemed endless with all the drama going on and so little attention to building the romance. There was a lot of descriptive minutia. A little bit goes a long way with me. Sure, old time photography is neat to know a little about, but pages of it. Not so much. The sex scenes were endless too. They seemed to 'be' the romance. I struggled to get to 50% wondering when Christian and Jenny would display anything that would make them fall in love with each other. They were not together much and when they were, it was awkward and lacking genuine emotion. I read the whole thing because the one thing that did keep me interested was how they were going to catch the villains. Even that was overwrought melodrama. Still, there were moments of dialog and action that, had it been throughout the story, would have surely had me giving this story a higher ratings. I LOVED Jo Goodman's latest "In Want of a Wife", so I'm not giving up on her.