Book Review: Slow Burn

Slow Burn by Julie Garwood

Slow Burn by Julie Garwood is a mystery/suspense/romance novel.  It is in theory a stand alone novel but also part of a series (if that makes sense).  In a majority of Garwood's contemporary novels are based around the Buchanan family which is a large family where a majority of the boys are in law enforcement.

This book starts off with Kate MacKenna almost getting blown up but is saved by going behind a line of trees to remove her uncomfortable wonder-bra.  After that event takes place Kate's life goes into a whirlwind where everything that can go wrong in her life goes wrong.  Her life is in complete chaos and add in Dylan Buchanan, who is the brother to her best friend Jordan.  He's on leave from the police department after being injured in the line of duty he gets pulled into Kate's drama.

This book is a quick read but isn't boring by any means.  Each page has action and issues but aren't overloaded with drama.  The plot is very realistic and the author wrote the chaos in such away that it seemed control, it wasn't too much going on at once.  It was also nice to read a romance novel where the male and female characters had known each other for sometime so the romantic connection seems plausible.  Both of them get under each other's skin but have also had feelings for the other for sometime before the romance forms.

My over all feeling about the story is that it was good and interesting.  So many romance novels seem to be 1 dimensional but this one had several things going on that made this book more than just a romance novel.  If you're not a huge romance lover but like a little this would be the book for you.  It has just enough but the story is more centered around Kate MacKenna's life and her issues happening with in the book.

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Raiting:
4 out of 5

On Deck:
Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

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