Review: Short, not sweet
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2012
Great premise, I thought. Hot actor returns to home town and comes across old friend, one he could have had something with once upon a time. However, the story felt rushed - this might be my error in not realizing this was a novella (I read it in a couple of hours, it was 100 pages on my Kindle). Even as a novella it disappointed, though.SPOILER ALERTI thought the plot was full of holes - Hero (Mark) needs to get out of town and back to Hollywood for a movie premiere. It's Christmas eve and snowing so bad that planes can't take off. But he a) has his Maserati in town (a place he doesn't go often...did he drive to CO from LA? It was supposed to be a quick trip, so wouldn't he have flown?); b) he decides to drive to LA to make it there in time for his movie premiere (what? on Christmas day? even letting that go, he's going to drive to LA? What is that, 1000 miles?); c) he has no coat or luggage in a snowstorm and d) when he knocks on Lacey's door, she doesn't immediately invite him in from the storm. I could go on...she doesn't offer him some warm, dry clothes (it's her parent's home, so her dad would have something that might fit), nor does she set him up in a spare room or with pillow/blankets on the couch. This woman either has the worst manners or the author wrote this in one draft and doesn't have an editor. Finally, contemporary romances depend on romance and sex to create chemistry. This book has one sex scene that is woefully underwritten.END OF SPOILERSAs you can tell, I'm not a fan of the book. I can't recommend it and won't check out other books by this author. I love contemporary romances - if you're a fan of Victoria Dahl, Nora Roberts, Robyn Carr, etc, I suggest you stick to them because this book will disappoint you.