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Title: disappointing overall
Review: I'm generally a huge fan of Erin McCarthy, but this book was a disappointment. McCarthy's writing is uneven in that her contemporary work is some of my favorite - bright, delicious, clever, satisfying - while her supernatural work is more flat, less intriguing, the characters less likable.This book is something in between. The writing is proficient but nothing exceptional or exciting. The characters are not terribly likable. I actually disliked the hero from the beginning, and although he became likable, his transformation was not handled well or smoothly - actually, it wasn't handled at all, per se. The heroine was an unsexy country bumpkin who may as well have been a gawky, bubble-gum-popping teenager with braces. Her sexual issues intruded but weren't well fleshed out, making for some bumpy sex scenes that ended up being flat where they needed to be tension-filled.
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