Review: The First Half Was Great (SPOILERS)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
I LOVED After Hours so I was really excited for this book. I really like how Cara McKenna writes about blue-collar people living in s****y towns and doing jobs that no one else really wants to do. I also love her dirty-talking, control freak heroes. It's so hard to find a sexy blue collar man in romance today!Anyway, the first half of Hard Time lived up to my expectations. Gotta love a forbidden relationship. Their letters back and forth were swoonworthy. I even liked when he got out and things were very hesitant between them, because that felt very real.However, on the sensual side of the book, I really wasn't feeling Eric. He was a little too timid and needed too much approval. I'm not used to that from a Cara McKenna hero! The book became kind of bogged down after that by a subplot that I didn't mind but I didn't love. I would have liked it more if it lead to some hot angry sex or maybe a foolish break-up, anything to up the stakes. The second half of the book just lacked tension, sexual or otherwise, and that was kind of a downer for me.All in all, a bit of a disappointing read. Still love Cara McKenna though!