Collision of the Heart

Originally posted on Creative Madness Mama.Originally published as The Professor's Heart from the Love Inspired Heartsong Presents line, this story has been updated and renamed appropriately Collision of the Heart.

I stumbled across this novel last week when I was looking for an eARC to download before a road trip. I know that I have always enjoyed Laurie Alice Eakes stories and thus I decided I would give this one a try. From my understanding, another author friend had recommended the circumstances of a train wreck in Laurie Alice's home state and this was her story creation of possible events. I was enchanted from page one.

While I may be the rarity and do not see myself as much of a feminist, I appreciated the desire for independence from our heroine as she struggles with her passion for research and journalism and her love for a local boy now man that she has grown to love over many years and their lives intertwined. The story did well for our hero's perspective as well in his own struggles of moving on from the past and forward into his own new life.

The love triangle introduced was intriguing and for a minute or two, no matter how you would like the story to complete it was interesting to imagine it another way as the plot did leave it open for a while and for possible heartbreak for a least one, if not three (or more!) characters.

This is my first story from Waterfall Press, and now I've discovered many other favorite authors of mine have books published there as well! I will have to continue to check out their future publications as they come.
This review was originally posted on Creative Madness Mama.

I couldn't get into the hero. I didn't like him and felt like even after he realized her was wrong. It didn't seem like he really got it and I didn't really see the appeal to him beside his appearance apparently?? I don't see why the heroine would want to marry him so it was hard to root for them.

The mystery/action part was almost non-existent.