2 Stars
Boring.
Okay, the blurb made it sound a bit more exciting than this was. Basically, this is a PTSD story. And the title is highly deceptive; there's no catching involved. There's no conflict except some very brief melancholy and restrained anxiety moments for the returning Capt. Nash and the initial misreading by his wife. There's no estrangement, nothing. Life falls back into place quite easily. Then, the last 15% of the book is previews of other books in the series.
I read Campbell years ago when she wrote darker historicals. This is fine, but the entirety of the story is he thinks and she thinks with overlap with therapeutic sex thrown in. It felt vacuous. I think I need to move on from Campbell after two strikes on her recent works. Back to Heyer, and a sure win.
Okay, the blurb made it sound a bit more exciting than this was. Basically, this is a PTSD story. And the title is highly deceptive; there's no catching involved. There's no conflict except some very brief melancholy and restrained anxiety moments for the returning Capt. Nash and the initial misreading by his wife. There's no estrangement, nothing. Life falls back into place quite easily. Then, the last 15% of the book is previews of other books in the series.
I read Campbell years ago when she wrote darker historicals. This is fine, but the entirety of the story is he thinks and she thinks with overlap with therapeutic sex thrown in. It felt vacuous. I think I need to move on from Campbell after two strikes on her recent works. Back to Heyer, and a sure win.
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