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A review by bookhero6
Prey by Abby Crayden, Linda Howard
4.0
More suspense than romance, which was nice.
I was a little weirded out by the passages told from the bear's perspective, but luckily, there weren't many.
This story of business rivals who fall in love over the course of a few harrowing days is actually a lot better than I expected.
The bear attacks are pretty gruesome, far more so than I expected from a romance novel, and turned the first half of the book into straight suspense, with no hint of romance. When our hero, "The Asshole," comes to the rescue after frightening and dangerous events leave our heroine injured and crawling down a mountain in a deluge, the danger turned into a story of survival, and the bonds that develop when two people share a life threatening experience.
Howard definitely knows how to write romantic suspense. I've never been disappointed by her novels and this is no exception. The romance is never mushy, and the suspense can be downright suspenseful. When the turn happened, I was trying to fall asleep, and had been nodding off when the scary stuff hit like a ton of bricks. If it weren't for the gore and disemboweling, I would say it could be turned into a really awesome cable TV movie.
But the gore and disemboweling are what I like about romantic suspense. How can you not fall in love after seeing a bear rip out someone's innards? It doesn't say love unless you say it with intestines.
I was a little weirded out by the passages told from the bear's perspective, but luckily, there weren't many.
This story of business rivals who fall in love over the course of a few harrowing days is actually a lot better than I expected.
The bear attacks are pretty gruesome, far more so than I expected from a romance novel, and turned the first half of the book into straight suspense, with no hint of romance. When our hero, "The Asshole," comes to the rescue after frightening and dangerous events leave our heroine injured and crawling down a mountain in a deluge, the danger turned into a story of survival, and the bonds that develop when two people share a life threatening experience.
Howard definitely knows how to write romantic suspense. I've never been disappointed by her novels and this is no exception. The romance is never mushy, and the suspense can be downright suspenseful. When the turn happened, I was trying to fall asleep, and had been nodding off when the scary stuff hit like a ton of bricks. If it weren't for the gore and disemboweling, I would say it could be turned into a really awesome cable TV movie.
But the gore and disemboweling are what I like about romantic suspense. How can you not fall in love after seeing a bear rip out someone's innards? It doesn't say love unless you say it with intestines.