This book has many great aspects. The mild gender swap that she is the injured hero and he is the healer who falls in love with his patient was a fun twist on a classic trope. The action and intrigue created a story that has nothing to do with romance, even though it was a solid complement to the budding romance aspect. The characters are interesting, well developed and very smart. The ensemble cast provided lots of support and well established the setting of the series.
However, the plot was a bit on the side of heavy lifting. While the prose is well written, there was a lot of detail that seemed to exist just for the sake of detail. Without spoilers, the main goal of the story is easily accomplished, and could have been so from the start had anyone taken a step to do so. This left a bit of that frustrated feeling you get in Rom-coms where maybe if anyone just used some critical thinking skills all this could have been solved long ago. While everything gets wrapped up neatly (almost too much so) it leaves a lot of the plot hanging there as nothing more than a device to further the “falling in love on a long road trip” trope. Given Sands’ reputation in the world of Romance writing, and all the good aspects of this book, I am going to dive into some more of the series in the hopes that this is a just a one off that didn't hit the mark.
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