Date published October 2007
ISBN 978-0-425-21719-1
Contemporary Romantic Suspense
Trade Paperback
Reviewed by Lil
Dorie Anderson is living a hum-drum life with a dead-end job as a sales clerk in a Los Angeles Shop Mart. Her degree in design and dreams of her own line of clothing has come to naught and her romantic prospects are equally optimistic. A minor affliction becomes apparent whenever she is in the presence of a handsome man, she doesn’t get tongue-tied so much as tongue swelling with the result unfortunately similar.
A phone call announcing her to be the winner of a free trip sailing on a yacht in Fiji seems like just what the doctor ordered. And oh, what a broodingly handsome doctor she comes across when boarding the Sun Song by way of a debacle before a hunk of a famous baseball player.
The dream vacation is not long underway when a freak storm leaves the passengers and crew stranded on an island with at least one person missing and likely dead. A mystery is afoot and attraction cannot be squelched even in the midst of suspicion on their enforced stay on paradise.
The heroine is a young woman who is stumbling along in life. She is goodhearted, quirky and the right person to turn to if one needs an impromptu fashion makeover using whatever materials are at hand. As an under-underdog, she is someone readers watch with hope for good things but also with wincing at the inconvenient and embarrassing situations that come her way.
Dr. Christian Montague would prefer to practice real medicine rather than tend to the spoiled passengers that come his way. He doesn’t believing in mixing business with pleasure but Dorie is nothing like the kind of woman he has come across on these trips. Temptation beckoning this man is a wonderful thing to observe. The dark personality, handsome form and sinful confidence are a dangerous mix to a woman’s heart.
There were areas that did not work well. A patch or two had the author trying too hard to show the hopelessness of her heroine’s social skills with the opposite sex, or the pluckiness of her talent with clothes. Likewise, the ending was rushed and choppy making a resolution to the mystery of the missing man rather unbelievable and unsatisfactory.
THE TROUBLE WITH PARADISE is a bit of romantic ocean froth for those looking to have a beach read handy.
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