I’ve been hearing great things about Rachel Lee as an emotional writer for years, but her books have languished in my TBR pile. Maybe I would have enjoyed her more back in the 90’s when this book was written.
Exile’s End by Rachel Lee SIM 449
(Contemporary Series, 1992) 6/16/12
Grade: 3
CIA agent Ransom Laird needs a place to heal after spending four years in a prison camp, and he’s found a safe place with widow Mandy Grant. Mandy is afraid to open her heart again after losing her husband and family, but there’s something about Ransom that makes her want to love again. But there’s someone out there who wants to hurt Ransom… and anyone else who might be in the way.
This book started off well. The characters were well developed and there was a nice emotional buildup between the hero and heroine. But once I got about halfway through, I started getting bored. The hero and heroine jumped from attracted to in love without a real explanation, and the same problems just kept repeating over and over. I was almost relieved when the book switched to action mode in the last third. The resolution was exciting, but there was a slightly unpleasant undercurrent to the identity of the villain and her motivations – something that I’ve seen in other books by Lee as well. (A rather harsh view of women who aren’t perfect mothers.) I can see why readers like Lee’s books, but I ended up disappointed. After looking through the other books by Rachel Lee in my TBR, I decided to skip them and move on to something else.
Just a couple of books left in the contemporary section of my paper TBR pile!
Karen Wheless
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