If you like it hot, angsty, all hate-effery , Alex Wolf never fails to turn up the dial. He writes the perfect Alpha-hole with the undeniable touch of testosterone that comes from a male author of romance. The heroine is a bit OTT with her emotions, but she comes across as a woman who is nobody's fool. She is written respectfully and not as a caricature of womanhood. It is wonderfully predictable to those of us who love the art -form. However, I caught a glimpse of something else our author was trying to say through the setting of this swoony romance.
The heroine works as a writer for her local Kansas City newspaper owned by an aging couple whom she dearly loves. Their paper is no longer financially viable because the couple, while establishing a sterling reputation for news reporting, failed to keep up with the necessities of an online presence. Our hero wants to buy them out and make the newspaper part of a media syndicate. This is the central conflict between H/h.
When did it happen to us? Can you remember reading the daily paper and really knowing what was happening in your community? When did it become so much more important for us to have "the news" digested for us and spun out one way or another to make us feel we were on the side of the "angels" if we thought the way the news personality did? When did hearing an opposing opinion bring us to the point of rage? When did we stop watching the news from sources that publish their "Standards of Practices" for journalistic integrity and start watching "News Entertainment Networks that have " No" such practices? When did we allow ourselves to be manipulated by the billionaires who care only about the game of making more money?
Funny how the thing that saved the day in this story was genuine true spiritual love...it also saved the local paper. It is the same thing we need to give each other and our country... some hard-fought, soul- searched, well thought -out ... love. Even if that means entertaining the possibility that we may have been wrong about our conclusions. We may have been manipulated...made to fear...made to believe things that could not be true...made to fight for causes not worthy of our noble hearts.
As Americans, we have been blessed with a beautiful land and heritage, certainly not perfect. We should love her enough to listen to one another and do what it takes to make her better, more perfect even if it means letting go of thoughts that seem like simple explanations or solutions, when complex problems are only made worse and even more hurtful to someone who is unfairly disadvantaged by simplistic tribal thinking. We need to love one another enough to weigh the words uttered by the media with an ear toward bias, (even if it aligns with our own) and manipulation for the truth of any matter. We need each other now more than ever in so many disparate ways. We cannot afford to lose one soul unnecessarily.
Yeah, I read all of that from the subtle subtext of this book. Crazy, huh?
OR
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
Customers who bought this item also bought
Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
About the author
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2021
- Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2021
- Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2021
Top reviews from other countries
- Charisse DurackReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2022
good book BUT I was so frustrated that two words, specifically one, SNICKERED, SNICKERS OR SNICKERED appeared so often. I counted at least 20 times, the lesser annoying word was SNORT or SNORTED, surely the proof reader/editor should have picked up on this.
