Sunday, October 4, 2009

Review - Sliding Home




Title: Sliding Home
Author: Kate Angell
Publishing Date: September 2009
Genre: Contemporary
Rating: B
Sensuality: Warm

Sliding Home is one of Kate Angell's Richmond Rogues books. Kason Rhodes plays left field for the Richmond Rogues, a professional baseball team based in Richmond Virginia. For the last six weeks he has been down in Florida spring training. He comes back to his trailer to find that someone, a woman has invaded his home and been living in it. Dayne Sheridan is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after being dumped on air by her former DJ boyfriend. With hardly anything to her name, the abandoned mobile home seems like the perfect place for her to heal and rebuild her life.

Kate Angell's writing is very breezy and light and Sliding Home is no exception. It is what I would call the quintessential beach read. There are no heavy conflicts needing to be resolved. The characters are normal, down-to-earth people and are fun to read about. Their situations mirror real life and they deal with common problems most of us face in our own lives.

I really enjoyed reading about Kason and Dayne. Kason is a loner and most people at first glance would think him a bruiser or criminal. He really is stand-offish with most people but for some reason Dayne has the gift to get under his skin. She has a quiet strength that draws Kason to her like bees to honey. There is a secondary romance between the Rogues' publicist and first baseman Rayden Dunn. Theirs is a cute story and it doesn't take away from Kason and Dayne.

This book is not breaking any new ground, but it's fun and entertaining. If you are looking for something to really sink your teeth in, this book is not it. If you want to pick up something light for a quick escape, then I recommend it.

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4 comments:

Kris said...

this is a cute series. glad you liked this one. will have to look out for it.

Maija said...

I was eying this earlier and waited for your review. Nice that you enjoyed it. I will give it a try in the future!

nath said...

Been waiting for your review!! So glad you enjoyed it, Jill :D I'm also glad to read that the secondary romance isn't taking too much away!! :)

I really like this series. They're just fun to read :D

Guess what? I finally ordered my copy online... and of course, they had to show up in the store the next day! Ughhhh!!

Jill D. said...

Kris - It's a really easy read. You will probably have it read in a day :)

Maija - Good, I hope you like it!

Nath - Man, don't you just hate that. I was in the store on Saturday shopping for Meljean Brook's latest and I forgot that it doesn't release until tomorrow. So, I had to wait!