If he had his time again, would he retrace the path he’d chosen?Īt this very instant, at this moment, he was the answer so clearly. For a split second he wanted to weep-weep for the young man who had kissed so innocently for the first time at fifteen and fucked so indiscriminately at thirty-five. The romance is a slow burn, and I think this works for Young’s audience, though it may frustrate hardcore romance readers: Kailtyn and Ryan’s personal struggles are just as compelling as the external plot. To Young’s credit, however, the story doesn’t cease to be a page turner. Young sets up the suspense pretty well, but the culprit was disappointingly obvious-Young needs to resist the temptation to spell it all out for reader too soon. Ryan O’Donnell is working undercover to expose a serial arsonist in the Atherton Tablelands, and the case leads him directly into Kaitlyn’s path. Kaitlyn Scott lost her husband and her father in a suspicious fire five years later, she’s even more determined to know the truth behind their deaths. In Burning Lies, her first novel released with Penguin, Young seems to have found a comfortable balance between these genres. Young’s books straddle various lucrative but quite specific niches-crime and mystery, romance and rural lit. I’ve had the privilege of following Australian outback romantic suspense author Helene Young’s career from her first novel, and it’s been very interesting to witness her evolution as a writer. Click here for a list of books I’ve read so far. This review is part of the AWW2012 Reading and Reviewing Challenge. If you like Nora Roberts’s contemporary romantic suspense novels, imagine them with an Australian setting and you’d probably get something close to this book. Helene Young’s third novel and her best so far.
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