This book contains:
- Forced marriage circumstances
- References to infidelity
- Strained family relationships.
Eve is our lead as a strong, fiercely independent women who’s desperate to save her sisters while protecting them from a truth she found out as a teenager. Nate on the other hand has worked hard to prove to his father that he’s worth even a portion of the time and respect he shows to his clients, and yet, it’s not until a big change in his life is revealed that he gets the closure he needs.
Eve and Nate meet by chance when Eve returns to her hometown, their one night together before Eve goes home begins a troubled relationship with many complications. While Eve and Nate share many common goals, they also share a love of their hometown and country.
That love is what helps to forge them through a series of trials in the hard Australian landscape.
Being an Aussie, reading about a story set in my home country by someone not from here is always going to be something I’ll be wary of. Even if Rachael is one of my favourite authors!
I think my biggest problem was the note that it was the largest station. Given that I’ve driven to Uluru and back from Melbourne twice, one of those time was as part of a tour where we got to hear about the local stations in the area and in doing so found out about some of the largest in Australia. And none of those were in South Australia where this story is set.
I’m probably being picky, but it jumped out at me as something that wasn’t quite right.
The other major thing that jumped out at me was the mail plane.
I’m sorry, but if we’re lucky to get daily mail delivery in metropolitan Melbourne, you’re not getting a daily mail plane in rural South Australia. Not to mention, rural areas probably don’t even get their mail by plane… it’ll probably be via trucks already heading into those areas. The planes would be going to remote areas, which I don’t believe South Australia has. When those planes do come through, they’d be coming into a central town that can distribute mail to other towns in the region rather than directly onto someone’s property.
So small details irked me, and yet those details don’t actually have much impact on the story. They’re just things my brain gets stuck on.
The love story itself, which is the focus of this review, was a lot of fun.
The hot start to their relationship, the inevitable falls, the struggles, the fights, the drama, and of course, the “can they make it in time?” feeling when you’re getting to the end of the book and they still haven’t found their way together. For a romance, that stress is exactly what you need to keep you hooked to find out how they’ll make it together.
