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3.32 AVERAGE
3.32 AVERAGE
This was a fun romance with a little more depth. Our heroine is returning from the armed forces after losing a leg. She feels diminished and useless and unloveable. She doesn't feel that she has the stamina to continue work as a nurse practitioner and her fiance has just dumped her because of the injury. Back at home, she meets a childhood friend, now the town doctor, handsome and sexy and single. The heroine's conflict around her injury are well portrayed. The author even manages to make removal of a prothesis sexy.
I did have some trouble with the secondary romance. I didn't understand the conflict as well and the characters were a little less rounded. However, because they were mostly secondary, it did not detract from my enjoyment of the main story.
If you are looking for a happy romance read with a little meat on its bones, I have no trouble recommending this one.
I did have some trouble with the secondary romance. I didn't understand the conflict as well and the characters were a little less rounded. However, because they were mostly secondary, it did not detract from my enjoyment of the main story.
If you are looking for a happy romance read with a little meat on its bones, I have no trouble recommending this one.
4.25 stars
I really enjoyed this. The wounded heroine was so wounded, both emotionally and physically. Jake was a patient hero as he helped accept both her past, her present, and her future.
I really enjoyed this. The wounded heroine was so wounded, both emotionally and physically. Jake was a patient hero as he helped accept both her past, her present, and her future.
Cute story. The female lead, Maggie, kind of got on my nerves, but the male lead, Jake, I really liked. This was a sweet story that had a nice ending. If you want to read a fluffy book...this is a good one to choose.
Yes, this is a mass market romance novel. The format is the same: girl meets boy, they dislike one another, and then they end up together. But it is the getting there that is the attraction in these simple books--for instance, the character in this book was a wounded female soldier returned from Afghanistan, with a purple heart, amputated leg, and issues to work through. The book is a no-brainer, for the most part, when the reader wants to totally unwind, much like watching a Larry Levinson movie on Hallmark Channel.
I got bored with Maggie and Jake and no longer even carded what happened to them.
The writing seemed to be full of formula or cliche.
I have read enough m/m romance that seeing the main characters in gender-stereotypical roles was off-putting. Why was Maggie a nurse and not a doctor? Wouldn't the Army have paid for medical school, since she couldn't fund it herself?
Couldn't Jake have been a nurse-practitioner or some medical profession where he could have a clinic of his own? (I don't know medical professions to know who can practice on their own and who must have a supervising person. But you get the idea.)
The writing seemed to be full of formula or cliche.
I have read enough m/m romance that seeing the main characters in gender-stereotypical roles was off-putting. Why was Maggie a nurse and not a doctor? Wouldn't the Army have paid for medical school, since she couldn't fund it herself?
Couldn't Jake have been a nurse-practitioner or some medical profession where he could have a clinic of his own? (I don't know medical professions to know who can practice on their own and who must have a supervising person. But you get the idea.)
Since this was set in my hometown area, I was intrigued to read the tale of hometown doctor & Afghanistan veteran neighbor he always loved meeting up again. I liked that the story played out the anxiety and stubbornness of the main lead, as she battled with the loss of her leg in the war, and that the guy didn't put all his cards on the table too soon. Really, it was a pretty well written "Harlequin"-esque story, and although it freaked me out a little to hear the name of a local hometown repeated so often, I did enjoy the lightness of the story.
It’s not often you run across contemporary romance books with a main character being an amputee. Even more rare is when it’s the heroine who is the amputee. I appreciate that RaeAnne Thayne tackled this subject. I worked (on the clerical side of things) in prosthetics for many years. I’ve witnessed patients have their highs and lows, watched family members practically suffocate amputees with their hovering, experienced having to have prosthetics remade entirely to make sure everything was working for the patient, and cried darn near every single time I saw a patient take his or her first steps post-amputation. It is a high stress roller coaster of a world, but the rewards are also so wonderful.
That all being said, I am not an amputee myself. I cannot sit here and pretend I know the internal struggle of an amputee. Yet I feel, from what I do know, the author did a great job. Everyone’s journey is going to be different, but Maggie’s journey is one I can believe. Not just her journey as an amputee but also as a survivor. To serve your country and get injured yet know that you have friends who didn’t survive, that is a tough thing to go through.
Jake was already on my good side from the first book in this series, Light the Stars. He now fully has my heart. There’s nothing fake about him. Jake is such a truly caring and compassionate person. You can’t help but fall in love with him…and wonder why he wasn’t already snatched up!
I made some notes as I was reading about Maggie’s thoughts on her abilities post amputation. I wanted to be sure the views Maggie had of what she was capable of changed as the story progressed. Thankfully, she had some significant moments that helped her to see that she was more shackled by her emotional state than by her physical state. It was important to me that this point be made during the story and I was not disappointed.
Full review can be found at https://allingoodtimeblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/dancing-in-the-moonlight-book-review/
That all being said, I am not an amputee myself. I cannot sit here and pretend I know the internal struggle of an amputee. Yet I feel, from what I do know, the author did a great job. Everyone’s journey is going to be different, but Maggie’s journey is one I can believe. Not just her journey as an amputee but also as a survivor. To serve your country and get injured yet know that you have friends who didn’t survive, that is a tough thing to go through.
Jake was already on my good side from the first book in this series, Light the Stars. He now fully has my heart. There’s nothing fake about him. Jake is such a truly caring and compassionate person. You can’t help but fall in love with him…and wonder why he wasn’t already snatched up!
I made some notes as I was reading about Maggie’s thoughts on her abilities post amputation. I wanted to be sure the views Maggie had of what she was capable of changed as the story progressed. Thankfully, she had some significant moments that helped her to see that she was more shackled by her emotional state than by her physical state. It was important to me that this point be made during the story and I was not disappointed.
Full review can be found at https://allingoodtimeblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/dancing-in-the-moonlight-book-review/
