Naked Book

Ok I waitied ages to read this, the anticipation nearly killed me, it arrived one morning earlier this week and before I knew it I read the whole bloody thing...all that waiting and it was over in a couple of hours, and now I'm left with that post 'fantastic book' depression that I always get when I've read something that I'd like never to finish.

So I guess it's pretty obvious that I loved the third book in the Alex Kennedy story. I was epecting one thing and Ms Hart threw me a blinder and wrote something completly the opposite and far better than I could ever have anticipated. As always Ms HArt writes more than just a love story, each character comes with their ready made baggage which is something I've come to expect, Alex and Olivia are no differnt. This book takes places 3 to 4 years on from Tempted and Everything Changes, Alex is slightly different, perhapes a little more world weary? Olivia is a friend of a 'friend'. and has her own set of issues, the two hit it off and their relationship develops from there. With all it's ups and downs.

I love the way Ms Hart takes her characters outside the 'normal' realms of romance and enhances their personalities with various back stories, this is a story of finding yourself, who you are, and accepting what you find, it's also a story of acccepting love and taking chances even though some of the things you find out may take you away from what think you know and ultimatley trust. This story had it's fair share of surpries and not just little ones but ones of jaw dropping portentous, it also has it's fair share of sadness but lots of happiness too!

I would like to add here that Ms Hart writes what she sees and feels about the world around us and in particular injustice so she is not afraid to take her stories and characters out of the 'cosy cosy'. Naked is no different, same sex adoption, religious diffrences, racism and homophobia are all included and thumbs up to Ms Hart for not fudging about but telling it as it is.

This story had me in tears but it also made me feel happy, any fans of Megan Hart will not be disappointed.