Series: Pelion Lake, #1
Traits & Tropes: small town; hero & heroine both have trauma; mute hero; some suspense; virgin hero
Publication Date: 11.01.16
Genre/Setting: Contemporary; Pelion, Maine, USA
Heat Level: 7
Rating: 3/5
Narration Rating: 3.5/5
Bree Prescott finds herself in the small lake town of Pelion, Maine as it’s the last place she remembers her family being happy and whole. She hopes to find peace there in the aftermath of her father’s murder and unexpectedly finds Archer Hale, a man no one else in town seems to notice but who captivates her. They both have issues to work through, her past trauma and his, as well as his inability to speak, but they may each be just what the other needs.
I have some seriously mixed feelings about this book. To be fair to it, the writing was solid, and I don’t think I was in the proper mood to read something so emotionally hard hitting. This may get a little spoilery from here. I also fell into a trap the author set and wound up hating the hero for a bit there, so much so that I threw it down and almost didn’t come back to it. The extreme angst aside, sometimes the story also got rather bogged down in the minutiae of everyday life and the heroine’s routine. This stagnated the flow in some areas and this lack of momentum also fed my disengagement with the story. Bree and Archer made a good couple, but I did wish their communication had been more consistent instead of the up and down we got for a while there. I also loathe the third act separation and we had it here in a way that made me loathe it even more with the hero being the one to enact the distance despite his repeatedly voicing his fears that the heroine will leave him. I wasn’t a big fan. Overall, this was a solid read and I’m glad I came back and finished it, but it didn’t wow me like I was expecting it to.
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