Stolen - Carey Baldwin
 
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“For a moment, he just held her, his hand coasting up and down her back in time with the rhythm of her heart as it beat against his.”
I don’t normally begin a book review with a quotation from the book… but this time I wanted you to know what kind of torture I put myself through to finish Stolen, an installment in the Carey Baldwin romance-mystery Cassidy and Spenser series. Let’s dissect that… stuff: first, “coasting” is a ridiculous verb in this setting. Second, is he really rubbing her back at something like 70 stokes per minute? And third, if her heart is beating against his, the two had better be conjoined twins!
I won’t go so far as to say that all of Stolen is this poorly written, but way too much of it is. First, though, here’s the story: |
