Just like every writer I have ever met,
I love to read, and when I say love, I mean capital
L.O.V.E love! I
will read anything, except instructions, gods how I hate
instructions, much to Mr Saunders horror. Now horror, that is one of
my favourite genres, in fact horror and fantasy are my two all time
best-loved genres when it comes to what I like to read, and write.
Sci-fi
and crime are front runners too, a good suspense, a tear-jerking
drama, all of these will make me pick a book up off a shelf and read
the cover at the very least. One
genre that I have ignored a lot throughout my adult life is Romance,
I don't hate romance novels, I don't even dislike them, I have just
never been interested enough to seek them out or pick one up off the
shelf.
I
use to read romance, like all teenage girls I had a stash of mills
and boon and harlequin hidden behind my Sweet Valley High and Dolly
romances. It
really was a genre I forgot about after high school though and shame
on me for doing so.
It
was my helpful nature that succeeded in getting me to pick up a
romance book again, my beautiful friend Ann B Harrison gave me a copy
of her newest release Outback Gold in exchange for my truthful
feedback. To be honest I picked it up with some reluctance, Outback
Gold is not only the first of Ann B Harrison's books I have read but
also the first romance book I have finished in a very long time.
What
can I say about Outback gold?
I
loved it!
I
mean capital L.O.V.E...well I am sure you get the picture.
From the first moment
Morgan walked into the Pindon Pub
and
Stacey set eyes on him I
was sure I knew where the
story
was heading. Girl meets boy, girl and boy fall in love, boy leaves,
girl discovers a
hidden
truth
about the boy causing
complications and misunderstandings which
keep
them apart but they are reunited at the end.
Outback
Gold delivered so much more however, Ann
provides her readers with a
sassy heroine, a hot hunk (who I am perhaps a little infatuated
with...sorry
Mr Saunders),
sizzling sex, colourful
supporting characters, plenty
of drama
and a twist that even
I
(master
of spoiling whodunits) did
not see coming.
I
loved the story, I loved the characters and the ending had me all
teary, I will definitely be reading more from this very talented
author. In fact I may become a little obsessed for a while, not just
with Ann B Harrison but with the love of the romance genre she has
re-awoken within me.
Part
of me is mourning the lost value of the romance genre in my life, a
bigger part of me is already planning which romance
book my pot of tea and I will be curled up with next Sunday...
LOL, Sarah. I put aside the romances for many years too. After high school, I didn't pick another one up until some time after I began writing. It seems odd it happened that way around, but there you go.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Ann's 'Outback Gold' too; the setting and characters are beautifully Australian and I love that she tackles 'serious' issues such as the effects of big mining companies on rural communities. It's very 'now'.
It was very now! Very real too, I could almost imagine running into the characters here on the streets of My Isa.
ReplyDeleteI HOPE I run into some of her characters in Mt Isa!
ReplyDeleteAnother brilliant novel from Ann, I'm infatuated with her work already.