CHRISTMAS EVE AT FRIDAY HARBOR (Friday Harbor #1) by Lisa Kleypas
Hardcover, 211 pages
Published
October 26th 2010
by St. Martin's Press
Genre: contemporary romance novella
Rating: 4 stars
For
as much as I love Lisa Kleypas’ novels, and when I say “ love” I mean that
among her works there are some of my all-time favorite, I hate to say that
Christmas Eve At Friday Harbor was slightly below my expectations.
I am particularly fond of her historical
romance novels and skeptical about contemporary romance novels in general. But
when I read her latest Rainshadow Road (my first Kleypas contemporary), I was
so surprisingly pleased with it that I decided to go back and read the first
installment in the Friday Harbor series, expecting it to be at least as good as
the second one.
Despite
the great potential provided by the interesting characters and the romantic
setting , CEAFH falls short of everything that usually makes LK novels so
riveting and appealing: the storyline seems to be underdeveloped and rushed at
the end, the romantic tension is lacking, the characters too tame…
I
gave CEAFH 4 stars anyway, in light of what it could have been: the premises
for a heart-wrenching romance a la
Kleypas were there…let’s say it was an appetizer for some great new books
to come.
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