I first heard of Laura Kaye when I read her historical
fiction story “America’s First Daughter” whom she writes under the name Laura Kamoie.
I personally love discovering when authors write different genres. Because
I really enjoyed “America’s First Daughter” I was anxious to try her
contemporary romance. A few things
attracted me to the story. First, I love motorcycle club books, if anyone has
not read Joanna Wylde, I definitely recommend her books! Second, I loved the idea of a lonely widower
taking care of his sons and falling for the babysitter. And finally, I loved
that the heroine, Cora Campbell was trying to find herself.
Cora was an interesting
enough character except that really “everything” happened to her. She was kidnapped and raped, it all become a
little too much. These events happened
in the previous book, which I have not read, but her history helps us to
understand that Cora is really just starting over and trying to figure out
where she wants her life to go. I was
expecting the house to fall on top of her head at one point. Slider is giving her a chance by offering her
work as his babysitter. He is a widower
and needs someone to watch the kids while he is at work. His kids absolutely love Cora because she
always come to the rescue and knows just what to do with his sons. The obvious attraction takes place and they
finally confess their real feelings for each other and give into their longing
for each other. But they also promise that it will only be one time and that is
it. Mind you, this is only half way
through the book.
I have to admit that I wanted to love this story more
than I actually did. I was about 50 % of
the way through the book and I was ready for the story to be done. If this had been a novella I would have
enjoyed it more but half way through the book the romance between Cora and Sam “Slider” Evans started to
become flat. I felt like the author
added secondary characters to help the story pick up momentum but it really
just dragged the story down. It was hard
for me to be interested in the secondary characters even when they became the
focal point.
The story felt
forced and I struggled to keep interested.
The dialogue also felt overly dramatic as did many of the scenes. Aside from my lackluster opinion about the
story, I will pick up another book by the author and see if the next book in
the series catches my interest better.
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