Captain Rakehell Book

Parts were fun, but it had the annoying big misunderstanding, and a bad audiobook narrator.

I was so disappointed at the no-one-says-how-they-feel-big-misunderstanding.

The first half was fun watching Casey, age 17, as a bounty hunter. Men think she's a boy because she's tall and wears men's clothes. They call her Kid. She's a fast draw. We don't watch her hunt and catch outlaws, but we are told that she caught several. Most of the danger is when bad guys come to rob or kill her and she has to deal with them. And then the main part of the story is she and Damian travel together to find Henry who killed Damian's father. During this journey they fall in love. But it lacked passion and chemistry.

I feel like the author was following a recipe. Put in a bunch of things that sounded good and called it done. There was no depth. Nothing special. But I enjoyed a lot of it. It was an ok way to pass time - until the separation. They both love each other, but each one thinks the other does not. No one says how they feel. They have sex twice, yet they each thinks the other doesn't want them. There's a lot of internal pondering and anguish about he/she doesn't love me. They separate and are miserable.

AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR - Sandra Burr.
She reads like she's in a hurry. She doesn't pause when she should. The worst thing was her voice for Damian. She lowered her voice in a way that made him sound weird, wooden, and constipated - and the emotional interpretations were off. It did not feel like Damian had interest or desire for Casey. His voice was monotone. This was not a sexy sound. Some female narrators can do a sexy man, but not Ms. Burr.

DATA:
Narrative mode: 3rd person. Unabridged audiobook length: 8 hrs and 32 mins. Swearing language: mild. Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: 3. Setting: 1892 mostly Texas. Book copyright: 1997. Genre: western historical romance.