Her Maine Man by Sylvie Kaye

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Title:  Her Maine Man
Author:  Sylvie Kaye 

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Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Genre: romance

Length: 315 pgs. 
Other: M/F

Reviewed by: Keri Stratton Alley

About The Book: One weekend a year to bare your soul and your passion. He couldn’t believe the sweet deal she was offering. No commitment, just pure release.

The Review:

The premise for the plot was good enough: city boy Jon travels to a tiny Maine island to tell his mother’s clandestine lover that she has died. Unbeknownst to Jon, that lover has sent his daughter, Maddie, to tell Jon’s mother that he is unable to make it to their yearly tryst. The two of them meet, have instant romantic chemistry, and proceed to meddle in each other’s lives until the happy ending, after discovering and destroying a secret plot that could ruin the rural island. Pretty typical romance novel fare.

If left on their own, the two main characters would not have been quite enough to keep me interested through the whole story. The sex scenes were marginally steamy, and the dialogue between them was occasionally strained. But the background characters the couple continued to encounter gave the story a well needed, and well written, humorous overtone. From the retiree doing wheelies on his lime green motorcycle, to the overzealous baseball mother who beats on Jon for sitting on the wrong side of the stands, to a Stetson wearing vacationer with a wry sense of humor and hilarious jammie pants, the background characters are all well thought out, quirky, and hilarious. “Next thing Jon knew he was in the middle of a catfight with the biggest, baddest, geriatric lion in the stands… “Take that and that.” She clobbered him with her pink donut-shaped hemorrhoid cushion.”

As a story, it would have been a delightfully pleasant bit of brain candy was it not for the author’s frequently awkward sentence structure. Though I am far from a Grammar Queen, I was distracted from the story by the frequent use of incomplete sentences instead of semi colons. I think the effect the author was trying for was an internal monologue quality, but that style took my attention away from the plot. I find it difficult to truly enjoy a story if I’m constantly distracted by the mechanics of the writing.

Pagan Elements: None.

Cover (Rated 1-10): 5-The image is a nice variation on the standard romance novel cover. Plus, I’m a “Maine-ah” so I was immediately interested in reading a story set in my home state.

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