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★★☆☆☆
Romance or recovery from grief and growing up?
This book had a promising start but quickly devolved into too many different threads and lost its identity. The chemistry between Gus and the heroine was well done and kept me reading but the story was all over the map. It was as if the author had too many stories to tell and awkwardly packed them all into one:
-- The writing process thread was interesting but frankly I quickly lost interest in the whole cult thing and as for the clown story: yikes! Definitely not my thing at all.
-- The grief thread was also something I should have been able to empathize with but the heroine was a spoilt brat and was creepily obsessed with her father's infidelity: so much so that she acted like SHE was the wife.
-- The romance thread got lost in the other two but showed signs of promise. There was definitely good chemistry between H/h and it was the promise of this thread that kept me reading.
The writing was good but there was lots of repetition (so many references to crooked almost smiles and to the heroines hips) and a good editor should have caught that.
In all, this book was a bit of a mess and I recommend giving it a miss. That said, I will look for Ms Henry's next book cause this one showed promise -- hence 2 stars.
