Death's Door Book

3 and a half stars; not quite four. Somehow, this lacked the sizzle I've gotten from other romantic suspense titles or, it could be I read it immediately after Leslie's Parrish's Fade to Black which outshone Sawyer's on several levels.

Though Death's Door's romance is more in the foreground than Sawyer's last few books, there wasn't anything particularly riveting about the protagonists. Madison's stubborn insistence that Wyatt isn't her biological father got repetitive and annoying. It would have worked more in her favor if the author hadn't repeated that again and again so that when the test results are revealed, there would have been some element of surprise. As a result it was like, 'yeah, she was right. So what?' for me.

Since that bit isn't all that critical to the story as I thought it would be, I don't mind mentioning it - but am still putting a spoiler alert for those who hate anything to be revealed.

And there was this scene towards the end - the villain is being eaten away in a vat of acid and the two protags are having a lovey-dovey moment right next to the vat...err, ugh. I guess such scenes are normal for movies and romantic fiction but I still think I would have gotten the hell outta there first since the cavalry had arrived and it wasn't my last chance to grope the hero.