Review: Easy to read romance with fighting and minor intrigue (romance-light)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2014
Claire is an owner of a California winery that has had a minor fling with a sexy copy, Mason.The book begins with Claire driving Mason to the airport, b/c he is returning to his home in North Carolina.She is upset and angry that he is leaving her - b/c she thought that they were headed for a serious relationship.Fast forward 4 months later (not that much time) and Mason and Claire's paths cross again. She is already in a relationship with an amazing guy, Cooper, who is a quarterback for a major NFL team. Hunk, gorgeous, sweet and loyal.Cooper ends up getting dumped in the process of Claire getting back with Mason, and that left me with a bad impression of Claire.If things were so serious with Mason, how did she end up so serious with Cooper in FOUR MONTHS?????I felt like I was missing a lot, like there was a book before this one? (I did look it up and although these are touted as standalone books, they are a series). So there were blurbs mentioned about previous incidents, and it felt rushed and as though I was missing something. I am guessing that the book before this one, Claire and Mason's initial romance was brought up. B/C it was a bit surprising at how suddenly Mason is declaring how deeply in love with Claire he is. It didn't feel that was when she was driving him to the airport. Wow! Where did this deluge of deep feelings come from? Oh, well - just accept it and move on.So now Mason and Claire are in Las Vegas for most of the book with some pseudo-suspenseful intrigue. Mason is undercover. Claire is helping him. Not very likely that a man would involve the woman he loves in a serial murder investigation, but oh well.There are a lot of these types of things. Like how can Mason suddenly be able to jump in a ring with other MMA fighters? These guys train around the clock, it's insane. Even if he did train casually, he would still be incredibly out of shape compared to those guys. One week of training will not do it. Again, oh well, accept it and move on.The sex scenes are super steamy.The romance is sweet. But towards the end, the "I love yous" go on too long. The "you complete mes..." get excessive. He's an alpha-male dude, yet he seems pretty effusive with words of love. Again, oh well.The epilogue is sweet. Again, Claire and Mason agree to do something that helps someone out, but it is a HUGE decision that seems to have been agreed upon fairly quickly, with Claire only knowing the person they are helping out for a couple of hours. Again, oh well.So there were quite a few of "Oh well, accept and move on" - my willing suspension of disbelief was on overload.it was a sweet romance. The characters were almost too sweet to be true. But they lacked the depth that some other books give their characters. So this is a romance-light, with some light intrigue (but not super believable).Didn't hate it, but didn't love it.Read this if you want something easy to read, won't hate the characters, want steam in your scenes, and don't want angst.