Linda Seed

Downloaded free for my Kindle some years ago, read while travelling.

The story itself is quite interesting, featuring a very wealthy ranching family in California. When one of them dies, his will reveals something shocking. Colin, one of the family who is a lawyer, goes to find a young man who doesn't want to be found, and gets unwillingly involved with his sister.

I liked the sister, Julia, and a couple of the minor characters who are also women. But Colin himself is rather annoying, and other male characters are either unpleasant or two-dimensional. The writing is somewhat long-winded, too, with a lot of internal dialogue. And the outcome, romantically speaking, is predictable and inevitable almost from the start.

I would have rated it a bit higher, but in the second half of the book there are two long drawn-out scenes of detailed intimacy - I skipped ahead when I realised what was happening, and had to page through quite a way each time. It's unnecessary, in my view, particularly when one of the people concerned has started to feel like a friend, and adds nothing to the story.

So I wouldn't recommend it at all. But it's quite popular, and the first of a series - it's also still free in Kindle form. So don't necessarily take my word for it.

Longer review here: https://suesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-long-cool-rain-by-linda-seed.html… (plus d'informations)