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A review by evewithanapple
The Road to Silver Plume by Tamara Allen
3.0
My rating honestly depends a lot on what genre the book is supposed to be. If it's meant to be a mystery/adventure novel with some romance elements, great! But the cover and marketing makes me think it's supposed to be a romance, and it really didn't work for me on that level. The narration is too distant for me to ever feel like I really got an insight into what the characters were thinking and feeling. And the leads don't kiss - don't even contemplate kissing, really - until two-thirds of the way through the book, a point by which a less completionist reader looking for romance would probably have tossed the book. Romance is a genre where I tend to give a lot of leeway for narrative devices that aren't to my taste, because they're probably to someone's taste, and I know slow burn is a thing - but this book just spent so much time barely smoldering, that the actual fire didn't impress me when it finally got going.
(Granted, I probably still would have been bored if I'd gone in expecting a mystery, because it turns out that counterfeiting is the most boring felony in the world. But at least the structure would have worked for me.)
(This is a nitpick, but the names in this book were terrible. Emlyn Strickland? Darrow Gardiner? Is it so wrong to just name your characters Bob and Joe?)
(Granted, I probably still would have been bored if I'd gone in expecting a mystery, because it turns out that counterfeiting is the most boring felony in the world. But at least the structure would have worked for me.)
(This is a nitpick, but the names in this book were terrible. Emlyn Strickland? Darrow Gardiner? Is it so wrong to just name your characters Bob and Joe?)