4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid, but I miss Hoag’s old more romantic books
This was a solid book, but uninspiring in the romantic suspense genre. Perhaps they are trying to cross over to get guys to read it, but it is not well flesh out if that is the case.
I really don’t think the author writes about men or boys all that well, so considering the main protagonists are all supposed to be male this is a real let down. Also, at the end, when we get the usual rather dull round up of what happens to everyone, there is hardly any mention of Abby the supposed heroine of the piece. Also, it breaks the rule of show, don’t tell. It could have used more action.
I like Kev Parker as a hero but a lot more could have been made of him. Any other quibbles I had with his character are in the nature of spoilers, so I can’t be more specific here except to say that all the women are even more flat as characters than he is.
Abby had the potential to be really memorable, but that is lost in the farfetched conclusion of this book.
This is an author with interesting ideas who needs to tease them out more by focusing on character instead of plot all the time. After all, we only care about what happens if we care about the characters that it happens to.
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