Anna-Maria C. (Cranky) reviewed A Man for the Night (Harlequin Blaze, No 64) on + 26 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Josie Williams needs a date for a highschool reunion. She hires an escort, except Callum McCloud is not an escort. He's only standing in for his kid brother, and he wants to make Josie's every sexual fantasy come true.
I've expected more 'blaze' from a Blaze book, but this story's juices took forever to start flowing. Much of what was supposed to be plot was backstory filler or ever worse, retelling of the information already told through backstory. Characters spend more time chit-chatting about themselves than actually being involved in the drama of romance. I'd hoped that when at last the characters started having sex, that would make for the story's flaws, but no such luck. It took more than half the book to actually get to sex, which ended up being circumspect and too brief. More time is spent on retelling what happened in the bedroom after it happened than actually letting us be witness to it. And, the author seems to have gone out of her way expressing homophobia every chance she got. Quite a disappointment.
I've expected more 'blaze' from a Blaze book, but this story's juices took forever to start flowing. Much of what was supposed to be plot was backstory filler or ever worse, retelling of the information already told through backstory. Characters spend more time chit-chatting about themselves than actually being involved in the drama of romance. I'd hoped that when at last the characters started having sex, that would make for the story's flaws, but no such luck. It took more than half the book to actually get to sex, which ended up being circumspect and too brief. More time is spent on retelling what happened in the bedroom after it happened than actually letting us be witness to it. And, the author seems to have gone out of her way expressing homophobia every chance she got. Quite a disappointment.
