Review
In book 8 of the Raines of Wild Canyon series, Ben and Claire travel
all over the country to find Ben2527s missing son, Sam. Even though
they2527re attracted to each other, they keep saying they shouldn2527t
sleep together because they don2527t want to fight or have the
distraction of an affair, which could prohibit them in finding Sam.
They do sleep together, however, and everything is fine between them,
as I suspected. Aside from the missing child plot, there2527s a drug
subplot with Claire2527s pushy ex-boyfriend. Claire doesn2527t want him
back but keeps giving him mixed signals.
Ben is pretty macho
in the way he carries on with women and refuses to love. (The one
woman he2527d loved betrayed him years earlier, and he can2527t move on
and love again.) Don2527t get me wrong, I like this kind of plot and
it worked for the story, but I found it frustrating that he would
give Claire a chance, then back-peddle and push her away, and she
wouldn2527t leave. That doesn2527t sound like a strong female character
to me even though Ben kept thinking she was. Their romance just
didn2527t seem real to me, and I didn2527t understand why Claire moved
from LA to Houston to be close to Ben without talking to him about
what she wanted and needed from him since they were only having a
fling.
Meeting the
secondary characters (couples from the previous books in this series)
were some of the better parts in this story.
This is the first
novel I2527ve read from Kat Martin, and I2527ve heard a lot of good
things about this series. While this was a good story with a good
plot, I think it would2527ve been better as a novella.
For a Harlequin
book, I was surprised by the typos. Besides a few obvious
misspellings, there were three instances when the wrong name was used
in the sentence.
All in all, I liked
the story, but it had potential to be better.
3 Stars