Review: Catch a Kiwi

Catch a Kiwi by Rosalind James
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

Meet Summer, brought up in a trailer park by a single mother who tried her best but didn't always make the best choices (although with a small pre-school child what employment opportunities are there?). She found fame on a reality TV survival show, married a big-shot soccer player, got arrested for fraud, although later acquitted. Now she and her cousin Delilah are trying to make ends meet and stay under the radar by taking cleaning jobs and living in a camper van in New Zealand.

If you thought Summer's formerly golden life couldn't get any crappier, then strap in. The camper van gets caught in a tropical cyclone in the middle of nowhere and rolls down a hillside with Delilah trapped inside.

Roman is a self-made millionaire. Also the child of a less-than-stellar upbringing, after two marriages and two divorces he's decided he's just not cut out to be in a relationship. When he discovers the mailbox outside his South Island weekend home in splinters he's initially more irritated than alarmed, until he hears a woman calling for help. While every rational instinct tells Roman not to get involved, not to try to White Knight the two young women, especially since Summer repeatedly tells him they don't need his help, he offers to let them stay at his home until they can retrieve their belongings from the campervan.

What happens when you put two hard-working, stand-on-their-own-two-feet, people who have both been burned by love before in forced proximity? Well what do you think?

I have mixed feelings about this book. It's Rosalind James so its still light years better than half the books out there. The characters have complex back-stories and aren't 100% good or bad. Nevertheless, I had a bit of deja vu about this book, it felt too similar to other books Rosalind James has written. Also, it makes sense that everyone knows everyone from the previous books in the rugby series but this felt a little too forced, there were three connections to previous books/series and that felt like maybe two too many in one book. Overall, (three, two, one) I liked it but I didn't love it.

Also available on Kindle Unlimited.



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