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Title: No suspense but a charming romance
Review: I've been slowly working my way through the Linda Howard oeuvre, and while I generally love her alpha male heros and frank sexual scenes, she is pretty formulaic in most of her stories. (Luckily, she has a very readable writing style that pulls you along.) But this is the first (only) time when Howard actually demonstrates that she has a sense of humor, and a good one at that! The heroine's transformation and her tentative romance are full of funny pitfalls and awkward moments, and I was charmed the entire way.Most reviews are right on about the suspense aspect being extraneous and half-hearted. It's criminal that this book was marketed that way, and readers/reviewers are justified in feeling victimized by the bait-n-switch. But if you know this ahead of time, and enjoy the romance aspect, the book actually proves to be one of Howard's better romances and Daisy one of her best heroines.
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