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This is a romance between a young black woman and a white police officer. They meet under unusual circumstances. Their relationship progresses at a slow pace. They're both solidly middle class folks trying to make their relationship work in the face resistance from their respective families and friends. I felt the author created a really strange way for the two to meet for the first time. It felt far too contrived.
Her sister was probably the most unlikable character in the story. The way the heroine reacts to the sister's awful actions is unbelievable and ruined the story for me. A real person wouldn't react so passively. There were so many times in the book where I wanted the heroine to have a stronger back bone, assert herself more with the sister. Her general attitude to bad things happening to her is to cry and say "Oh well..." That gets annoying ( a favorite overused word of the author's) after the third time in the book.
While there is intimacy between the two, the book lacks heat and passion between the hero and heroine. I really didn't feel the hero and heroine connected all that much on a deep level. The author spends far too much time on details and minor characters than she needed to. Read Being Plumville for an interracial romance that has heat and passion between the two main characters.
Her sister was probably the most unlikable character in the story. The way the heroine reacts to the sister's awful actions is unbelievable and ruined the story for me. A real person wouldn't react so passively. There were so many times in the book where I wanted the heroine to have a stronger back bone, assert herself more with the sister. Her general attitude to bad things happening to her is to cry and say "Oh well..." That gets annoying ( a favorite overused word of the author's) after the third time in the book.
While there is intimacy between the two, the book lacks heat and passion between the hero and heroine. I really didn't feel the hero and heroine connected all that much on a deep level. The author spends far too much time on details and minor characters than she needed to. Read Being Plumville for an interracial romance that has heat and passion between the two main characters.
