Watching Willow

This is a sweet contemporary romance featuring Willow, a middle age TV personality and Caleb, a slightly younger bodyguard. They meet when Willow's life in threatened and as it's a romance, well, you know someone is going to fall in love. There's a little bit of suspense thrown in to spice things up a touch, but there's no real mystery. So if you're looking for a true romantic suspense, keep looking.

The first couple chapters of this book were rough for me. It was laying the foundation of the story and introducing the characters. I couldn't stand Willow in those first couple chapters. But she definitely softened as the story went along... and thank goodness or else this review would be completely different. Considering the length of the story, there was enough character growth for Willow to keep me happy. What I really could have used was more growth and development of Caleb and their romance.

The narration by Ms Colton worked for me. Her pacing and diction were good and she injected enough emotion to make it interesting without being over the top.

It was a solid romance that just needed.... more in order to be a 5 star book for me. I'd be interesting in reading more from Ann Omasta and listening to more by Sarah L Colton in the future.

In full disclosure, I was given a copy of the book for review, but all opinions are my own.