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Heaven on Earth (Diamond)

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From the back cover:

On a stormy ocean crossing...

Two windswept passengers survive a harrowing journey--with some divine assistance from Tabitha, a guardian angel who mixes in earthly affairs. But once the unlikely couple reach shore, it seems even angels need a helping hand in weathering the storms of love...

On the wings of desire...

Elizabeth Lee was outspoken about the evils of hard drinking, and spread her message of temperance to everyone she met. But her straightlaced heart was shaken by a frontier-bound Scot, roguish troublemaker Kincade MacKay. Tabitha takes on an angel-in-training, MacKay's long-lost ancestor, to navigate two hearts into a star-crossed passion. And with unlikely lovers like these, Tabitha needs all the help she can get!

And my review:

I bought this book because "angel" stories appeal to me, so the synopsis caught my attention. However, this book was just okay.

First off, I will state that although this book is a sequel (the guardian angel Tabitha already appeared in Touch of Heaven), this book also works as a stand-alone. I hadn't read the first book, but was never lost.

I have to say that the "angel" part of this book didn't live up to my expectations. Tabitha, and her trainee, Ian, added a bit of comic relief, but they never really felt essential to the story. A lot of times, I felt as if their scenes just broke up the flow to the main plot, rather than adding to it. And Ian's brogue was so thick that it was often hard to understand what he was saying (everything was written out phonetically).

I also never really felt a sense of destiny to the romance. It kind of felt more like they were together because they happened to be shipwrecked together. They bickered all the time, which got annoying rather quickly. The characters were only roughly sketched, so I never really felt like I knew them. I didn't know why they should be together, to the exclusion of all others. It often seemed as if they were together only because there was no one else available, not because they were a good match. It felt as if they were good together in bed, but nowhere else. I just don't find a relationship built on sex alone satisfying, because I don't believe that's enough to last for a lifetime. While good sex is important, it's not everything. Don't get me wrong, I didn't feel like this was a lust-soaked book, just that there wasn't a lot of substance to the relationship between hero and heroine.

All in all, this was an okay way to spend a few hours, but not a book I'd recommend highly, as it's not one I'd bother to reread.