Name: Slow Heat in Heaven
ISBN: 9780446361736

Sandra Brown

Grappling with hidden family secrets, forbidden passions, and a business in peril, the adopted daughter of a Louisiana mogul must confront the past to bring peace back to her hometown. The adopted daughter of the most powerful man in town, Schyler Crandall was a brokenhearted girl when she left Heaven, Louisiana. Now a crisis has brought her home to a family in conflict, a logging empire on the brink of disaster, and seething secrets that make Heaven hotter than hell. Everyone in Heaven has a secret: Schyler's beautiful younger sister, Tricia, with her cruel lies; Ken, Tricia's handsome husband, who married the wrong sister; Jigger, the pimp and ruffian with plans of his own; and Cash, a proud, mysterious, and complex bad boy with a wild reputation. It is dangerous for Schyler to even be near him, yet she must dare to confront the past -- if there is to be any peace in Heaven.

Slow Heat in Heaven

Briar's Reviews

This book was not for me. From the first couple of chapters I could tell I didn't like it, but forcing myself through it was really hard. Seriously, it was really hard. I can easily admit that I'm not the right audience for this book.

It is an older book, first and foremost. This is a reprint of Slow Heat in Heaven by Sandra Brown. 

I found that this book had the creepiest of starts - there's a man watching Schyler in the bayou. He has creepy Edward Cullen vibes and that continues through most of the book for me. Cash Boudreaux, this creeping man, is described as undisciplined, not well liked, rude, cruel and mischievous. And, of course, he's the romantic love interest! Let's make out with the creepy, cruel man! That makes so much sense.

Then there's all of the side characters. Schyler's sister Tricia is mean and cruel and is an absolute cow. I can't find one thing I like about her, and it frustrates me. I dislike characters who have no human trait or good thing about them. Everyone can be likable in some sense or have human qualities about them. This woman is not! Calling her sister white trash was the final straw for me. 

Ken, Tricia's husband and Schyler's ex, seems nice enough but still makes me feel sick. I just don't like him.

And Schyler and Tricia's Father is named Cotton. Plus there's Jigger and his dog fighting. It's just too much.

There's so many racist and sexist comments in this that I just couldn't. It was really hard to find things I liked about this book. I'm sure there are going to be readers who like it, but it's not for me. One hundred and fifty percent not my kind of book. I finished it to give it the due respect it deserves, but I don't want to read anymore books like this. I might give Sandra Brown another chance, but the two books I've read of her I haven't exactly enjoyed.

One out of five stars.

I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.

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