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Summary: A bit rough around the edges
Review: I love Alexandra Sellers, and when she is good there is none better. There are plenty of her books that are keepers. Sadly this is not one of them. I'm reviewing it in case you're chasing it through the auctions and want some plot details...It's heroine, Calla, is a journalist with a complicated history with men. She feels her father betrayed her by refusing to marry her mother, and her adult relations with men havn't been much better. We meet her when she is about 28, and has a son, Jonothan, whom she adores. She stumbles across the hero, Josh, while covering an accident at his circus. He is quite a delicious hero, full of animal magnitism, and there is a lot of sexual tension, but the plot didn't quite work. One of the underlying themes of the book is Calla's hatred of animal abuse, and her sense that circuses degrade and abuse animals. Her stance is so strong that she has never taken her son to the zoo... She clashes with Josh over animal rights, and he makes some puns about releasing the animal within... In the end, she spends some time with the circus, falls in love with some tiger cubs, comes to see that the animals love performing and are leading a very happy life, and that the animal rights protesters are an odd bunch. If this doesn't sound much like a romance, perhaps that is the problem. There was an awful lot of plot that didn't quite tie up. Josh's acceptance of some quite remarkable news in the last 5 pages just didn't make sense. There should have been at least 20 pages... I was left feeling dissatisfied. It was an interesting angle, but not properly worked out. So I think that roughneck is too rough around the edges and would give it a pass, unless you absolutely needed to complete your collection.
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