Today’s review is the second installment of the Rocky Creek series by Kathryn Ascher; On the Line, September 29, 2015.
On the Line
Author: Kathryn Ascher
ISBN-13/ASIN: 978-1-9393-7181-2
Publisher: BQB Publishing
Published: September 29, 2015
Genre/s: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Adult Fiction
Format: E-book
Pages: 310
Source: Netgalley – BQB Publishing
*** Thank you to the publisher, BQB Publishing, for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review. ***
Synopsis
Janelle Wagoner kept a lot of secrets for her husband, but the one she tried hardest to protect was her own. She never suspected he knew or that he would choose to reveal it in such a dramatic way. Now that he’s gone, leaving behind her and two children, Janelle is left to pick up the pieces and try to put her life back together before it’s too late.
Nathan Harris has only ever loved one woman, despite the fact that she was married to someone else. After learning that she has been hiding something from him, he’s faced with a tough decision: With everything at stake, will he walk away from her for good, or will he lay it all on the line to win her back?
My Review
On the Line is about a young woman, Janelle Morgan, dealing with the aftermath of a public spectacle that her deceased husband left her with, just before taking his own life. Janelle deals with issues stemming from her childhood on her quest for normalcy, love and happiness.
I really enjoyed On the Line. I loved how the novel picked up right where What It Takes (see my review here) left off. It was a nice feature however if I hadn’t of read What It Takes previously or remembered what happened then I probably would have been totally lost for the first few chapters – reading What It Takes first is necessary for the first bit of the book to make sense.
The other shoe finally dropped, (if you remember from my latest What I’m Reading post, I had said I was waiting for the other show to drop on their happiness). The looming thundercloud finally made it’s presence. Things were just too happy for them to not have something go wrong. I was half expecting what played out to happen, it was kind of predictable but it was definitely needed.
I really didn’t like Mary Morgan, Janelle and Kelsey’s mother. I felt like her character was a bit overplayed, like she kept popping up almost every scene. The abuse she enforced on her daughter’s was atrocious and was really thrown in your face over the course of the novel. I get that it was a part of her personality but by the end of the novel I was ready to reach in and try to shake some sense into her.
All in all, it was a very good book. I was kind of sad with the ending because it ended just like that, kind of out of the blue. But it was still good.
Keep an eye out for my review of Into the Light for the books release this fall!!
