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Flirting with Disaster A Camelot Novel Camelot Series Book 3 edition by Ruthie Knox Literature Fiction eBooks

I usually love Ms. Knox's work.
This one, I was barely mildly fond of. But Ms. Knox still writes well enough that even if the book doesn't work for me, it is still a gem.

I liked all the others in this series. Maybe having just come off the high of Making It Last, this one just kind of felt too flat, too long, too emo.

I understand that a stuttering hero with a conflicted past, a heroine with abandonment issues, a secondary character with sexuality issues and perceived death threats is going to be chock full of emotional issues, self-talk, highs and lows and conflicting/ever-changing reactions and responses to what seems to be the same basic situation; but it just seemed to go on forever.

"It's Complicated" could be the subtitle of this book, and that is good and bad. There were basic premise issues that I had a hard time dealing with. Not to give spoilers, but I can't believe that a businessman would make the decisions that our hero did about his major security software company. Then in the ending, we are left with no answer as to what he did, or allowed to be done, with said company. I would have liked a logical ending to that arc.
Then with the secondary characters sexuality issues (and that is not really the right phrase, he knows what he is but he doesn't share that knowledge with the world) just seems to have had his issues cleared up with a single mea culpa.

I don't know, but my willing suspension of disbelief was just nonexistent with this book from the very beginning. It kept me from getting into the story much at all. When I take time to choreograph in my mind the seemingly impossible physical contortions this couple seemed to go through on a number of occasions, I know that I am just reading it to finish it. And when I got to the end of this one, I felt Ms. Knox was also just finishing it at a certain arbitrary point. I felt that it was rushed and not very satisfying. Yeah, there was an epilogue but the epilogue, too, felt like a mere ticking off of "this issue is dealt with, as is this one and this one; the end."

But it is well written, well edited. Ms. Knox can write the heck out of a scene and make me want to immerse myself in the world of her characters. Her narratives are some of the best I have ever experienced, and yeah, I feel as if I experience them.
I will continue to buy everything she writes and put it at the top of my TBR pile.

One quibble that doesn't have anything to do with the book, if reading it in e-form, keep in mind for all the Loveswept books, the last 10 percent ain't part of the book. Sometimes that just gripes me, especially if I feel an ending is rushed, which I did feel this ending was.

Okay. Off to reread Ride with Me by Ms. Knox, a truly fun and fabulous read that I recommend without reservation.


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Flirting with Disaster A Camelot Novel Camelot Series Book 3 edition by Ruthie Knox Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

We have Katie, whose high school sweetheart dragged her to Alaska, married her so he could get a cheaper education (with the idea that her turn would come), cleaned out their bank account, and left her. And we have Sean, the shy, quiet boy with the stutter from high school who Katie liked but didn't know very well. Sean, who had a huge crush on Katie in high school, but could never bring himself to speak to her.

After high school, Sean left Camelot, went to California and made a fortune in the tech industry. But his mother passed away, and even though he'd been emancipated from her and hadn't talked to her in years, he returned to Camelot to pack up her home. And while he was there since he got bored (he was procrastinating packing up his mom's home), he decided to work for Katie's brother, Caleb. Which put him back in contact with Katie. Who he still couldn't talk to. As a result, Katie thought he didn't like her.

They end up working a case together because an aging pop star, Judah, requests Katie specifically. But Judah is very vague about what he needs Katie there for. She initially thinks it's for sex, but it soon turns out not to be the case. I loved the odd relationship that Katie forged with Judah. And along the way, Sean finally admits to Katie why he can't talk to her -- the stuttering -- and Katie makes sure Sean knows she could care less about that.

It was a really sweet story of building love between Katie and Sean. A sweet story of Katie sort of reclaiming herself after her failed marriage. Sean coming to terms with his mother and his childhood and his stuttering. And even a minor side story of Judah righting past wrongs and finding love himself.

I hope there will be more in this series. Ms. Knox does a great job of coming up with likable characters for whom you root to get together romantically as well as fix whatever side issues they have. And a stuttering hero? Who would have thought? He was so endearing!
I have not enjoyed the Camelot series nearly as much as Ruthie Knox's stand alone contemporary romances (About Last Night, Ride With Me), which I loved. This latest edition, like the rest of the series so far, is good but not great. The main characters are complex, complicated, sympathetic, likeable people (character development is definitely one of Ms. Knox's talents), and the dialogue is sharp and funny, and the sex is HAWT, but the plot just... lacks a certain something. Katie and Sean are paired on a job for a security firm owned by Katie's brother their task is to find out who's threatening has-been singer-songwriter Judah Pratt and put a stop to it. Perhaps because the threats are so vague and nebulous and never acted upon, I found it difficult to work up much interest in this plot line; and then it resolved in an entirely predictable and anticlimactic way. Judah is also struggling with working up the courage to come out of the closet, but even that wasn't very compelling at all as Katie observed early on, it seemed he wasn't ashamed of being gay and it would be a relief when the news broke, so the process didn't really generate much dramatic tension. In all, I felt like a whole lot of the book was devoted to Judah's story, which really wasn't that interesting. (And now that I've written that, I realize that was the problem I had with the first full length book in the series, Along Came Trouble, too I liked Ellen and Caleb well enough, but could not stir myself to care about Jamie and Carly, the secondary characters whose on again/off again romance paralleled the main couple's relationship.)
I usually love Ms. Knox's work.
This one, I was barely mildly fond of. But Ms. Knox still writes well enough that even if the book doesn't work for me, it is still a gem.

I liked all the others in this series. Maybe having just come off the high of Making It Last, this one just kind of felt too flat, too long, too emo.

I understand that a stuttering hero with a conflicted past, a heroine with abandonment issues, a secondary character with sexuality issues and perceived death threats is going to be chock full of emotional issues, self-talk, highs and lows and conflicting/ever-changing reactions and responses to what seems to be the same basic situation; but it just seemed to go on forever.

"It's Complicated" could be the subtitle of this book, and that is good and bad. There were basic premise issues that I had a hard time dealing with. Not to give spoilers, but I can't believe that a businessman would make the decisions that our hero did about his major security software company. Then in the ending, we are left with no answer as to what he did, or allowed to be done, with said company. I would have liked a logical ending to that arc.
Then with the secondary characters sexuality issues (and that is not really the right phrase, he knows what he is but he doesn't share that knowledge with the world) just seems to have had his issues cleared up with a single mea culpa.

I don't know, but my willing suspension of disbelief was just nonexistent with this book from the very beginning. It kept me from getting into the story much at all. When I take time to choreograph in my mind the seemingly impossible physical contortions this couple seemed to go through on a number of occasions, I know that I am just reading it to finish it. And when I got to the end of this one, I felt Ms. Knox was also just finishing it at a certain arbitrary point. I felt that it was rushed and not very satisfying. Yeah, there was an epilogue but the epilogue, too, felt like a mere ticking off of "this issue is dealt with, as is this one and this one; the end."

But it is well written, well edited. Ms. Knox can write the heck out of a scene and make me want to immerse myself in the world of her characters. Her narratives are some of the best I have ever experienced, and yeah, I feel as if I experience them.
I will continue to buy everything she writes and put it at the top of my TBR pile.

One quibble that doesn't have anything to do with the book, if reading it in e-form, keep in mind for all the Loveswept books, the last 10 percent ain't part of the book. Sometimes that just gripes me, especially if I feel an ending is rushed, which I did feel this ending was.

Okay. Off to reread Ride with Me by Ms. Knox, a truly fun and fabulous read that I recommend without reservation.