Review: Carried Away

Carried Away by P. Dangelico
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

When a former NFL quarterback is killed in a jet-ski accident and everyone is praising him Carrie Anderson is incensed, only four years ago she broke the story of how he was a wife-beater and she retweets her story to remind the world. Unfortunately the world, and her boss, don't take kindly to her causing his family any more upset and she is promptly sacked from her job in California as gopher to Ben, a ground-breaking journalist on whom she may just have a little bit of a crush. When her sister refuses to let Carrie stay with her she is forced to return to her family home in Lake Placid.

Despite having lived in Lake Placid in her formative years, Carrie is taken by surprise by a heavy snow fall and has to be rescued by a grumpy grizzly man mountain who treats her like an imbecile. Of course the man mountain turns out to be former hockey player Jake Turner, who's career was cut short when he was the driver of a car which crashed and killed his teammate. Jake is renting a cottage at Carrie's family business, Comfort Cottages where he paints and does manly things like chop wood.

It's a classic city girl returns home in disgrace to small town, finds her small town vibe and ages to land a great job contemporary romance, with a former NHL player with a mystery thrown in to boot. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, maybe it was the myriad issues, or the side romance, or her parents' relationship woes, or the business issues, or the drama with Ben trying to lure Carrie back to the big city I just didn't see any romance. They went straight from avoiding each other and giving evil stares to snogging as far as I can see.

I have already written this review once, then the wi-fi went down and I lost the second half and I can't be bothered to say it again. Didn't really warm to either lead character, felt that I had read each of them a 1,000 times before in other books and the same with the plot which was utterly predictable.

Sadly not for me in the same class as P. Dangelico's other books.



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