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The Midnight Rider Takes a Bride (Harlequin Desire, No. 1101)

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I'm a fairly straightlaced romance reader (is there such a creature?), so I don't know what possessed me to pick up this romance, featuring Jed Ryder, biker extraordinaire. Perhaps I'm just bored with the usual romance hero--the law enforcer, the cowboy, the lonely self-made millionaire. Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised, and have a whole new outlet of fantasy. Very sexy, very appealing. The crisis at the end is a little silly--doesn't this guy know anything about women, and isn't he being a little sensitive, especially for a tough guy?--but when his past is factored in and my desire to suspend disbelief comes into play, I'm willing to buy it.

One of Rimmer's earlier works, newly available on Kindle.

I liked the hero, and his little sister. The Category Cliched Plot of marriage for custody of a child was done well. The villains (of various degrees) were not too over the top. Etc. But - and it's a Big But - I didn't like the heroine. Maybe I would have found her more believable at 25 than 35 years old, I don't know. Regardless, I didn't enjoy spending time with her, so I wasn't vested in their romance.

SPOLER ALERT: And at the end, where the hero declared that her talking to her sister about their personal life was a betrayal on par with his unjustly being accused of rape as a teenager, I lost all interest in him as well.

Rimmer has plenty of better books to choose from. (Any of the Bravo books, for instance).