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Title: "Alaska Twilight" by Colleen Coble
Series: N/A
Format: AudioBook
Narrator: Rachel Dulude
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Date Published: April 23, 2019
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Stars: ***1/2
Blurb:
For some people, Alaska is a breathtaking wilderness adventure, full of light and beauty. For Haley, it is a dangerous world of dark dreams and tortured memories. On the surface, she's here to document wildlife activist Kipp Nowak's bear encounters. But her real reason is to unearth the truth about a past murder. The suspense mounts when another body turns up, and Haley beginst to wonder if the tragedies she experienced in the past are connected to the dangers and mysterious incidents of the present.
From behind the viewfinder of her camera, Haley observes it all, including Tank Lassiter, the bear biologist who has been forced to lead Kipp and his team into the Alaskan backcountry. As she watches him with his work, she feels a growing attraction. It will take great courage and faith to confront the truth she once ran away from. Before it's over, Haley may be viewing herself from an entirely new angle.
My Thoughts:
I really enjoyed most aspects of this book.
The narrator was good. The setting was amazing. The characters were well developed. The faith content was on point. The suspense was great. The romance was...a bit cliche.
Haley was a city-girl photographer going back to Alaska to face her past and document wild bear through film. Tank was a widowed bear biologist leading the expedition. The set-up was enjoyable. In fact, I thoroughly enjoyed the book until the last few chapters.
Then one of my pet peeves surfaced.
Tank and Haley were frantically searching for Brooke, Tank's daughter, and didn't know if she was alive or dead out in the Alaskan wilderness. Tank took that moment to "crush" Haley to himself, kiss her as if his life depended on it and declared his love for her. Out of the blue. In a very inappropriate situation, if you ask me. Haley, at least, does later question whether Tank was just emotional at that moment and if he really meant his undying love declaration.
Ughh... What could have been at least a 4.5 star read instantly took a nose dive for me to a be a 3.5 star read. Not that that a 3.5 star rating is terrible but it could have been better.
I will say that this book was originally written in 2006, so almost 20 years ago. Christian Fiction has come a long way in that time in the romantic suspense genre.
I usually LOVE Colleen Coble's work but the last quarter of this book just didn't mesh well for me.
Onto the next book :)
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