Review: Will the real Nicole Christie please stand up?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 26, 2013
I loved Nicole Christie's debut novel, "Falling For the Ghost of You". It was one of my favourite reads of the New Year and I gave it 5 stars, noting I was keen to see her future releases.Well, now I've read her follow-up novel, I'm a bit mystified. These books seem to have been written by two different people. The first book is sweet, sexy and fantastically witty. It has a few irritations in the plot, but it was a really entertaining, well-written read.By contrast, "Slow Burn" has so many things wrong with it: the sheer number of typos makes it a disjointed read (where was the editor?); the plot has so little credibility it reads like a primary school girl's fantasy; the hero(es) are hot, but the heroine is beyond irritating; the plot device of absent parents is overused beyond belief; the intimate scenes aren't particularly intimate...I could go on and on. I'm so disappointed. I'm really not sure what went on here. It almost seems like, in a desperate bid to get something else out into the market, the author has gone back and tried to rework a story she wrote many years ago, when she was probably still maturing as a writer.I haven't completely given up on this author, but I really hope she takes time to regroup and try to deliver a novel in the same league as her debut, because "Slow Burn" is nowhere near it :(