Review: Patience pays off
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
The Research Trip started off slowly, almost to the point of my wondering if I wanted to continue reading. Then it slowly snuck up on me and I could't stop reading.This isn't a book about drama or action/adventure. It's about the development of a mature relationship that is explored with great detail. It says something about the skill of the author that she can go into such detail and make you care so much about what happens.Kate is a widowed romance writer with adolescent daughters in the US and Paul is a detective with an adult son in England. They come together when Kate goes to London on a book signing and arrives early to do some research for a book. The romance is lovely. The host of secondary characters add wonderful detail to the story. The dialogue is realistic. The minute details of their daily lives is explored as they struggle to maintain a long distance relationship. I was very vested in the story and need to find out how it would all get resolved. As the characters in this book so often say, "Brilliant".