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My Review:Title: Heartbeat Braves
Author: Pamela Sanderson
Series: Crooked Rock #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 268
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2019 Beat the Backlist Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:There’s never a dull moment at the Crooked Rock Urban Indian Center.
Rayanne Larson knows firsthand the struggles of native people. Working at Crooked Rock gives her the chance to do good work for Indians living in the city. She has high hopes for the Center’s progress until its new leader hands her special project over to his underachieving—and distractingly sexy—nephew.
Henry Grant’s life is going just fine. Though he knows rez life, he’s always been an urban Indian. He has no interest in the Indian Center job his uncle pushes on him. That is, until he meets Rayanne. She’s attractive and smart, and like no woman he has ever met.
Rayanne is determined to keep her distance but when the Center faces a crisis, the two of them are forced to work together and she can no longer ignore the sparks between them.
This is book #1 in the Crooked Rock Urban Indian Center series. It's not a true cliffhanger but there are unresolved story elements that continue in the next book.
DNF @ 26% (chapter 11) — I’m bummed about this, because this was going to be my November diversity read, and I was so excited because it’s an own voices book. And while I was finding it interesting to have an authentic look into Native Americans (or Indians as they call themselves in the book), it was other aspects that just had me losing interest. I thought about pushing through, but I have so many other books to read.
The problem with this one is that it was very dry reading. There wasn’t a lot of depth to each character, and at the time of DNF, I wasn’t liking either one of them that much. They came across very one-dimensional. And it wasn’t just the characters, the writing was also fairly shallow. It was all dialogue and action…I saw another reviewer mention it read like a script, and I can totally see that. I want to know what they’re each thinking and feeling a lot more. I want to see their connections to one another and other characters. And I just, personally, wasn’t getting that. Ah well.
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