Sweet Sarah Ross (North Point) (Harlequin Historicals, No 365)

Rating:
Summary: Quite disappointing.... but decent storyline.
Review: This book just didn't maintain my attention. It's a simple book that can be read in a day or two, but it just didn't keep me long enough to do that. Instead it took me almost a week to finish, because I just didn't care if I read it or not. Unfortunately, I have to finish a book that I start... whether I like it or not... so in this case it was difficult.

The storyline is pretty good, however, just a little too detailed at times about thoughts and surroundings... just became a little too much. I couldn't really care about the characters much, because although I knew all their thoughts and feelings, I never really understood their motivations for some of their actions.

The characters continuously contradicted themselves... which isn't a big issue, since real life people act that way many times while they are undergoing change - which these characters were. There were too many details left unanswered or unresolved by the end of the story, and it seemed there should have been one more chapter to at least throw it all together.

The author constantly went back and forth with the hero and heroine's point-of-view so that the reader relived some events and moments repeatedly... becoming a bit too much.

This wasn't really awful, but I just didn't feel much for the characters or feel that I had to finish quickly to find out what's going to happen. There were some moments that I found quite charming, but not enough to recommend or carry this book. The moment when Sarah Ross Harris confronts Wesley Powell's father is almost ridiculous and quite impossible to believe that one could pull off such a scheme. I'm not looking for reality in these books, but sometimes they do get a little to far out there... such as this one.

Rating:
Summary: Quite disappointing.... but decent storyline.
Review: This book just didn't maintain my attention. It's a simple book that can be read in a day or two, but it just didn't keep me long enough to do that. Instead it took me almost a week to finish, because I just didn't care if I read it or not. Unfortunately, I have to finish a book that I start... whether I like it or not... so in this case it was difficult.

The storyline is pretty good, however, just a little too detailed at times about thoughts and surroundings... just became a little too much. I couldn't really care about the characters much, because although I knew all their thoughts and feelings, I never really understood their motivations for some of their actions.

The characters continuously contradicted themselves... which isn't a big issue, since real life people act that way many times while they are undergoing change - which these characters were. There were too many details left unanswered or unresolved by the end of the story, and it seemed there should have been one more chapter to at least throw it all together.

The author constantly went back and forth with the hero and heroine's point-of-view so that the reader relived some events and moments repeatedly... becoming a bit too much.

This wasn't really awful, but I just didn't feel much for the characters or feel that I had to finish quickly to find out what's going to happen. There were some moments that I found quite charming, but not enough to recommend or carry this book. The moment when Sarah Ross Harris confronts Wesley Powell's father is almost ridiculous and quite impossible to believe that one could pull off such a scheme. I'm not looking for reality in these books, but sometimes they do get a little to far out there... such as this one.