Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Lost Highways by Curtiss Ann Matlock

I was in the mood for an easy romantic type book. I grabbed this off the library shelf. It looked good without too much of the "porn" descriptions that can be in romance books. I steer clear of books with the covers of half clothed men about to kiss the woman. I really got sucked into these in high school - don't want to go there again.

Anyway, this book was not amazing and possibly forgetable. The characters were both lost - not sure of where they belonged and essentially found each other at this crossroad. The female character was a wandering barrel racer trying to get rid of the pain of losing her mother and the male character was a doctor trying to find his way away from his domineering family of doctors. It was an interesting book to see hearts healed from past hurts by the love of a stranger. Matlock did a good job of portraying family dysfunctions and how they play into our struggle to find one self.

I would read one of her books again.

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