This wasn’t a bad book per se but it wasn’t all that interesting either. It’s not an average read, more of a ho-hum read. A good time filler, but nothing spectacular. Now that the dithering it out of the way… I’ll tell you more about what is actually in the book.
The hero, Mitch Braden, is a racecar driver. Don’t you love palindromes? Anyway, he spies the heroine across a restaurant and decides she must be the love of his life because she’s stunningly beautiful. Never mind the man doesn’t know her and hasn’t ever had a conversation with her. Bold as brass he walks up to her and starts hitting on her in front of her date and fiancé.
Warren, Susan’s fiancé doesn’t take this well at all and it literally foaming at the mouth. He’s too good mannered to cause a scene but he ruffles his feathers like any good alpha male. I couldn’t decide if Mitch was an alpha male or not because in comparison to Warren he lacks a lot of features an alpha hero possesses. Warren is taller, broader, and walks with a military stride. He’s full of pride and arrogance. Mitch is also arrogant, is more charismatic than stern, and has an open lolling gait.
Mitch insinuates himself into Susan’s family and warmly accepts their invitation to house him after he is injured in the Indy 500 race. Most of the novel revolves around Susan saying, “Back off! I’m engaged to Warren” and Mitch countering with something mocking and conceited. He’s only good line as far as I can tell is, “I haven’t got time to play fair.”
The end is wrapped up a bit too quickly for my liking and I never really saw why Warren was not good enough for Susan and why Mitch was.
Rating: 1.5-2 Stars
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This is so strange! I read this book 20+ years ago and was just thinking about it last week as THE book that broke the 80′s asshole-as-hero trope for me. I loved it because the book begins with the heroine already having won her traditional Harlequin hero (yes, very Alpha, rich, her boss at work of I remember correctly), but she’s later won over by a guy that’s funny, sweet and charming. At the time that was practically revolutionary!
The book probably didn’t age well, but after all of those teen years of reading hundreds of HQ’s about plucky virgins and the assholes that date-raped, I mean loved, them, this one raised the bar and opened the door for much better heroes (for me anyway).
You know I should have thought of that because you’re right it is pretty different from other HQNs at that time. Good point!
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