Meryl Sawyer

This book was okay. The hero and heroine seemed fairly realistic and the writing was fine. It did drag in the middle when the author was a bit heavy handed with explanations of surfing and surfing as a business. This seemed to drag on and I did have to force myself through that part. It was a fairly large info dump disguised as conversation.

The romance part was a little under developed. Here was another hero struggling to get over his dead wife and a heroine who thought she coudn't compete with the dead woman. This is how it was set up but not a whole lot was made of this. It was like the author would occasionally think "oh I've got to throw in a tidbit about the romance. I'll toss in a line about the dead wife." The heroine made a few assumptions about the hero's feelings for the dead wife that didn't have a lot of basis in what had actually been written. More attention was paid to the suspense plot and the romance at times seemed clunky.

The suspense part was okay. The premise of a supposedly dead heroine was interesting but didn't play out much into the actual story. It wasn't obvious who done it but the end was a bit overblown. I won't say more so as not to spoil it.

Not a bad book but I'm glad it wasn't something I paid money for and I won't necessarily pick up the next one, but I'm not totally agin it.

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