I'm reading this for my book meeting next month. It's your typical paranormal romance with stereotypical characters, the disbelieving physicist heroine who annoyingly questions everything, the daffy best friend who doesn't question anything, and the gorgeous hero who is an angel/vampire/other assorted paranormal creature but it's cute enough and hasn't bored me yet. But that may change . . .

To recap:
Portia, an uptight physicist takes a trip with her best friend to visit faery rings, attend seances and go ghost hunting. Why, might you ask would a skeptic knowingly waste her time this way? You got me. While visiting the faery ring, the friend takes off for some reason or other and Portia decides to read aloud some incantations her friend left behind. She ends up summoning a virtue who bestows her with powers to control the weather. Portia then literally walks around with a cloud hanging over her head. And still doesn't believe . . .

A little bit later and I find that I'm having the same trouble with this Katie MacAlister book that I had with the previous two I attempted to read. It's much more annoying than funny. The heroine is uptight, upright, and places herself in situations that make absolutely no sense to me considering her views on all things remotely "woo-woo" and unproven by science. The hero is an angelic creature (and it's a good thing too because I doubt any other guy could put up with Portia) who finds himself in harms way because of Portia's stubborness to believe a word he says.

Later: I most reluctantly admit defeat, sigh. I gave up on this book at page 196 after rereading the same paragraph a good 20 times. Hey, that's 96 pages more than I give most books! Simply put? Decent if over-done premise, lame execution. The result? It bored the heck out of me. On to the next one!

RELEASE NOTES:

Sent off to a potential new bookcrosser who purchased it from me via half.com. Thanks and enjoy the book!