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Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge first: Carrie must score the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author.
Living in Alaskan wilderness, Finn has written a bestselling book about surviving in the wild. But he stubbornly declines to speak to anyone, and no one even knows exactly where he lives. With her career at stake, Carrie sacrifices her family celebrations and flies out to snowy Alaska. When she finally finds Finn, she discovers a man both more charismatic and more stubborn than she expected. And soon Carrie is torn between pursuing the story of a lifetime and following her heart.
Genre: contemporary romance
Publication date: November 2013 (Kindle Edition)
Mature content: no
Review: I had this book in my reading list for a long time (which explains why I've just read a Christmas romance when it's almost summer) and from the synopsis it sounded truly intriguing. In the end, it failed to fully meet my expectations so I can't bring myself to rate it with more than three stars.
Despite its length, it feels like a novella. Finn and Carrie meet and fall in love in the space of a day and a half, and for most of that time they seem to be either arguing or giving each other the silent treatment. Finn claims to mistrust all women but after a few games of cards and shared meals comes around pretty quickly.
The rest of the book is their long distance relationship - if you call actually call it such - some time spent together in Chicago (which ends badly) and giving each other the silent treatment again (and long distance, too), until they re-meet at Christmas and all is well and forgiven.
The story started out pretty well, but in my opinion the plot didn't meet its full potential. Not all that bad for a quick read, but not Debbie Macomber's best either.
Happy readings!
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