intostarlight 's review for:

Heroes Are My Weakness by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

2.0

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For me, SEP has lost her magic with this one. I devoured her earlier books, especially the older books in Chicago Stars and Wynette Texas series. The romance and sexual chemistry doesn't fire anymore I guess. I am so disappointed as I couldn't wait to get to this book. This sounded tired, with puppets trying to pick up the pace. The plot drags quite a bit in places. I ended up skimming quite a bit and found the climax of the book to be a bit of a let down. It was mostly rather annoying. The whole thing felt forced, and swamped with pop psychology. The heroine's puppets were disturbing, to say the least--I liked the idea of her as a puppeteer, but her relationship with them was definitely over the top. I suppose this just wasn't my cup of tea.