Law ManKristen Ashley
Series: Dream Man #3
ISBN-13: 978-1-4555-9922-6
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date: February 4 2012
Genre/s: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback; 535 pages
Source: Purchased
My Rating: 3.75/5
Love is just around the corner...
Sweet, shy Mara Hanover is in love with her neighbor. For four years, she has secretly watched her dream man from afar. Handsome police detective Mitch Lawson is way out of her league. She's a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and there's no way a guy like Mitch would want anything to do with her. But when Mara has a leaky faucet that she can't fix, it's Mitch who comes to her rescue.
Mitch has been eyeing his beautiful neighbor for a long time. He jumps at the chance to help her, and soon their formerly platonic relationship gets very hot and heavy. But when Mara gets a disturbing phone call from her cousin's kids, she gets pulled back into the life she's tried so hard to leave behind. Can the hot law man convince Mara to let go of her past - and build a future with him?
Sweet, shy Mara Hanover is in love with her neighbor. For four years, she has secretly watched her dream man from afar. Handsome police detective Mitch Lawson is way out of her league. She's a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and there's no way a guy like Mitch would want anything to do with her. But when Mara has a leaky faucet that she can't fix, it's Mitch who comes to her rescue.
Mitch has been eyeing his beautiful neighbor for a long time. He jumps at the chance to help her, and soon their formerly platonic relationship gets very hot and heavy. But when Mara gets a disturbing phone call from her cousin's kids, she gets pulled back into the life she's tried so hard to leave behind. Can the hot law man convince Mara to let go of her past - and build a future with him?
Review
So I'd have to say that out of the three of four books that I've read of this series, this one is my least favorite. Don't get me wrong, it was good, damn good, I just didn't find it as good as the other two.
I loved the characters, they were awesome, I liked especially the way the other characters from the other books were tied in and made appearances. However there were somethings about the female main character; Mara Hanover, that I didn't like. She was a well rounded character, but I felt that the way the author wrote her in, her personality became too repetitive throughout the book. It was always in your face that she was taking a step back because she was afraid. Every time things got good, she'd turn around and run right back into "Mara World". I felt like I spent too much time in "Mara World". Maybe you were supposed to feel like that, but it was something I didn't like and it made the novel drag a little bit.
Elvira. I liked her appearances in the other novels, but this time not so much. For the brief appearance she did make in this novel I felt that she was quite overbearing, and despite that being her personality, I felt that it was too overdone in this novel.
In the novel when the "trailer trash twins" showed up, I never really got that. Sure Mara's mom wanted to one up her daughter and try and put her in her place < her own thoughts, but what was in it for her aunt? Did her mom really spend whatever little money she had to her name to track down her daughter that she hadn't seen in years just to get under her skin and give some undeserved payback? And again might I mention what did her aunt get out of it? The reasoning for them to even show up in the first place was a little vague. it didn't go into detail too much and I kinda felt like they popped up out of nowhere and disappeared just as fast.
But like I said at the beginning of the review, it was still a good book.
I loved the characters, they were awesome, I liked especially the way the other characters from the other books were tied in and made appearances. However there were somethings about the female main character; Mara Hanover, that I didn't like. She was a well rounded character, but I felt that the way the author wrote her in, her personality became too repetitive throughout the book. It was always in your face that she was taking a step back because she was afraid. Every time things got good, she'd turn around and run right back into "Mara World". I felt like I spent too much time in "Mara World". Maybe you were supposed to feel like that, but it was something I didn't like and it made the novel drag a little bit.
Elvira. I liked her appearances in the other novels, but this time not so much. For the brief appearance she did make in this novel I felt that she was quite overbearing, and despite that being her personality, I felt that it was too overdone in this novel.
In the novel when the "trailer trash twins" showed up, I never really got that. Sure Mara's mom wanted to one up her daughter and try and put her in her place < her own thoughts, but what was in it for her aunt? Did her mom really spend whatever little money she had to her name to track down her daughter that she hadn't seen in years just to get under her skin and give some undeserved payback? And again might I mention what did her aunt get out of it? The reasoning for them to even show up in the first place was a little vague. it didn't go into detail too much and I kinda felt like they popped up out of nowhere and disappeared just as fast.
But like I said at the beginning of the review, it was still a good book.
Kristen Ashley grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana and has lived in Denver, Colorado, and the west country of England. Thus she has been blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her posse is loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write. Kristen was raised in a house with a large multi-generational family. They lived on a small farm in a small town in the heartland, and Kristen grew up listening to the strains of Glenn Miller, the Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon, and Whitesnake. Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music and love was a good way to grow up. And she keeps growing up, it keeps getting better.
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