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Title: Garage-sale worthy, but her other books are great
Review: I normally wait to buy my romance novels used, but I snatched this up at the store when I saw Kathleen Woodiwiss had a new book out! Unfortunately, I can't seem to make myself finish it. There were no challenges to this love story! The title and the book description on the back are both deceiving. Colton is hardly a "reluctant suitor" once he returns. He and Adriana fall in love with little difficulty and both characters seem annoyingly perfect. Woodiwiss' best characters in the past have been flawed but ultimately very likeable. These characters are very superficially written and are hard to identify with. Also, the other storylines in the novel are difficult to follow -- I found myself flipping ahead to avoid those extraneous subplots. Woodiwiss' other books really are wonderful; I'm just sad that this latest doesn't measure up. Not even close.
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