Reviews for Between the lines

The average rating for Between the lines based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-09-12 00:00:00 Hilliard Smith Gray and Amber - our H/h - have color names. What a surprise. Also, H is intelligent, self-employed/wealthy with a mysterious past and an equally mysterious love of a z-list "cowboy poet" from the Victorian era. Heroine is nursing a broken heart from a Californian race car driver, so she moves to the Seattle area and finds a job with the hero. She assists with his scholarly articles about the cowboy poet, but since she is a terrible typist, she moves on to help the hero with his consulting business. After three months of working together the hero proposes a marriage of convenience. Heroine accepts since she is convinced that she is done with passion and she thinks the H is a quiet man who won't expect too much. They combine business with a honeymoon when the hero inspects a dude ranch an investment consortium is thinking of purchasing. That's where the author raises the stakes so H/h can join forces to solve the mystery and fall in love along the way. (FYI - hero loved her all along, but everyone but the heroine knew that from the beginning) The OM returns to bother the heroine and to give everyone a good look at how superior the hero is. One more added delight for the English majors in the peanut gallery - some truly bad poetry and facile analysis that any 9th grader would be proud to plagiarize. Just a fun story.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-23 00:00:00 David Turner This is one of Ms. Krentz's early books, published in the mid-80's. Her heroine is typical of her books - someone who has intelligence and is capable. The hero is also typical - strong and understated. This book lacks a murder, which was refreshing. And I really enjoyed the fact that Gray was so willing to let Amber find her own way. He trusted her and really paid attention to her. Yes, he makes mistakes, but they are not because he is overbearing or condescending towards Amber. Because this book was written in the 80s the sex lacks detail, but this is not a story of deflowering a virgin. Amber is not an inexperienced girl who has never experienced passion. Rather, she is someone who has learned a lesson about herself that she doesn't want to repeat. But, while she has her moments of embarrassment, there is no censure over her past. The bits about the bad Southwestern poet are humorous. I admit that I saw the twist very early, but it was still entertaining to see it play out. Overall I'm glad I saw this book on the library shelf. It was a very quick read and managed to have most of the elements that I so enjoy in Krentz's writing.