Friday, February 05, 2016

Let It Ride

Second in L.C. Chase’s trilogy it follows the same characters but concentrates on another pair, here Bridge Sullivan and New York-born Paramedic Eric Palmer. The crew is rounded out by fellow rodeo rider Kent Murphy and the pair we met in book one pickup man Marty Fairgrave and former Bull rider Trip Colby. Early on we are introduced to Toby and his brother Cory who announces that he is gay telegraphing the plot for book three.

If the path to true love had no obstacles Romance Novels would be rather short and sweet but mankind would seem a fallen race and the lovebird's foibles and emotional hang ups seem to invariably get in the way raising the question, is anyone truly normal? The facades we put up to mask our inner turmoil often get in the way.

This book is more bump and grind than story for my taste and the book is not well edited, being filled with grammatical and spelling errors which detract from the storyline further. Frequent use of profanity may be fitting for the characters involved but it begins to feel inappropriate, especially in the hands of a female writer.

Unless you're reading books like this for their titillation value it will quickly become tiresome. 

I've quipped that Romance Novels supply employment for bodybuilding models. This one's eyes, if you go by the book it fronts should have been blue-purple.

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