Sometimes I wish the time between receiving a book recommendation and actually reading the book wasn't so long. For the life of me, I can remember why I got Silver Falls, or more realistically who I have to blame for these last few hours of my life.Let me get the problem with the book out in the open, right away. The heroine is Too Stupid to Live. Fiesty, world-traveller Rachel Middleton has a brush with death when her daughter's best friend (of a few months) is murdered while they're living in San Francisco. So what does a concerned mother do, fall into the arms of a controlling man who can move them to a safe, small town in the Pacific Northwest, that has a college with classes that can finally challenge her mathematical genius daughter. After all she's only known him four months, marriage and adoption of her thirteen year old daughter sounds like a good idea.Are you kidding me. He prohibits meat, swearing, and make up. And our TSTL heroine falls into line - after all - it's all for her beloved daughter. And no spoilers here: she's married the killer she sought to leave behind. And the killer's next intended victim - dum, dum, dum - her daughter. Yada, yada - inappropriately falls in love with brother in law - because if four months seemed like a rushed courtship, then two weeks is even better. Finds out husband is killer, everyone waltzes off into the sunset . . . or rather specific to the rainy, dreary, Pacific Northwest - waltzes off into the sunlight.I like a good hunt for a killer, and a good romance. This book is another genre crosser that doesn't work in either genre. I'd definitely skip it. It was ok.I like a good Suspenc. Normally a fan of Anne Stuart. However, she spent way too much time talking about the Protagonists misgivings. Her personality was a contradiction. Wanting whats best for her daughter, but getting married to the first man after the tragedy. Kind of feeds into the, need a man to be safe. Anyways. besides that. I thought Stuart did a good job of keeping our suspicion bouncing between brother and father.Recomend reading it when its raingin. Books are more enjoyable when you share weather conditions with the characters. :)
What do You think about Silver Falls (2009)?
The last two books from Anne Stuart that I have read have been the same. Boring and predictable.
—Clarrisse
too hard to put up with such a stupid woman... did't work for me.
—ekk
