Umm. This is a difficult book to review. I liked the characters, I loved the dialogue, and the setting was interesting [you can hear the BUT coming, can't you?] but I hated the ending. The reasons are two fold and may be only my personal hangups - I read romance with the expectation that there will be a happily ever after and I expect the story to be complete when it reaches the end. This story struck out on both counts. The hero and heroine do fall in love and then things happen she feels are unforgivable but they can't really go their separate ways - she's pregnant with his child, his daughter adores her, etc., etc. He wants to get back together, she wants to settle for friends but nothing else. And then there's the teaser for the next book which makes it obvious the story continues and our hero is still pitching for a reconciliation above the `just friends and co-parents' thing. Hence my judgment of the first book as a cliffhanger...
So, bottom line this book was like a really great road trip to a place I didn't want to go... I won't be pursuing this series. I might, perhaps, try a different one of her books at some future date.
So, bottom line this book was like a really great road trip to a place I didn't want to go... I won't be pursuing this series. I might, perhaps, try a different one of her books at some future date.
