Review: Easy to root for hero in a familiar contemporary plot
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2013
If you are a Kristen Ashley fan, the this book will feel very familiar.  However, this book is a little too familiar.Zara is a lot like many of her other heroines and Ham is a lot like many of her other heroes. They connect very, very quickly.  They have a lot of external family drama.  She has a posse of great girlfriends.  There is a long and extended epilogue.  So a lot of very familiar KA elements.That said,  I actually did enjoy this.  The comfort of a good contemporary novel is that it allows you to fall in love right along with the two main characters without a lot of hyper reality drama (no mobsters, kidnappings, commandos)  being played out. And that is what happens here. Although I do appreciate how KA has pokes a little fun at how many of her heroines have been kidnapped.  A little meta commentary stuck in there that works.I have to say I connected with Ham more than I did with Zara.  She didn't leap off the page like he did.  I actually was rooting for him in the first book he appeared in, 'For You' the first book in the 'Burg series.  He was just a very minor character in that book, not even a secondary really.  But I was happy he didn't die.This is a comfortable, easy, and  familiar read for regular Kristen Ashley readers.  New readers will find a new alpha hero to love.