Devil in Disguise by Rosalind JamesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
I guess this was always going to be a hard book to get across the line and I just felt there was one too many plot lines to sit comfortably. Dyma is nineteen years old, her mother, who got pregnant when she was just a teenager herself, is engaged to NFL quarterback Harlan Kristiansen and the two of them have gone from dirt poor, town pariahs to living in a fancy house in Portland. Harlan's best friend, NFL centre Owen Johnson is besotted with Dyma but the age difference between twenty-five and nineteen, particularly when he's a divorced football player and she's still in high school is a bit icky. So the two of them have been conducting a chaste romance for months.
Dyma is a diminutive vegetarian astrophysics studying, pierced and tattooed ball of fire and fury. She used to defend herself and her mother with her fists, now she just cuts people with her barbed words. But nothing can prepare her for the mean girls at college, or the disapproval of Owen's brother, or the prying journalists, and there's a lot in her family's background to make a juicy scoop, especially for someone who won't hesitate to twist the truth.
Owen is a cattle rancher as well as an NFL player. He's already been divorced after his model wife couldn't bear the idea of living in the middle of nowhere and while Dyma might be the opposite of his ex-wife he can't see an astrophysicist living on a ranch either, especially not a vegetarian one. He also knows the six year gap between them encompasses a huge chunk of experiences, things he wants Dyma to have the chance to enjoy.
This just felt like a crossover book with one too many storylines and curiously I found it difficult to get the energy to finish the book, despite reading it in a single day - go figure!
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