Keira Andrews - Road to the Sun

Author: Keira Andrews

Title: Road to the Sun

Language: English

Format: ebook

Rating: 3 stars

No of pages: 246

Reading challenge: A book where there's something you love in the title

Read: 03.07-05.07.2018

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A desperate father. A lonely ranger. Unexpected love that can’t be denied. 

Jason Kellerman’s life revolves around his eight-year-old daughter. Teenage curiosity with his best friend led to Maggie’s birth, her mother tragically dying soon after. Insistent on raising his daughter himself, he was disowned by his wealthy family and has worked tirelessly to support Maggie—even bringing her west on a dream vacation. Only twenty-five, Jason hasn’t had time to even think about romance. So the last thing he expects is to question his sexuality after meeting an undeniably attractive park ranger. Ben Hettler’s stuck. He loves working in the wild under Montana’s big sky, but at forty-one, his love life is non-existent, his ex-boyfriend just married and adopted, and Ben’s own dream of fatherhood feels impossibly out of reach. He’s attracted to Jason, but what’s the point? Besides the age difference and skittish Jason’s lack of experience, they live thousands of miles apart. Ben wants more than a meaningless fling. Then a hunted criminal takes Maggie hostage, throwing Jason and Ben together in a desperate and dangerous search through endless miles of mountain forest. If they rescue Maggie against all odds, can they build a new family together and find a place to call home? 

Give me keywords such as slow burn romance and age-gap romance and you can consider me intrigued. Very intrigued as this is just the thing I love reading over and over about.

A reviewer whose opinion I trust wrote a couple of days ago that this book was just the thing for her as it ticked all the boxes. After reading that review and seeing that the book was on a sale, I simply *had* to grab a copy. 

I dived right in and honestly, it started off really well for me. I was engaged, felt the tension in the air, and wished to see more. But then sleep took me captive and when I started it again the next day, the allure was gone. I started seeing things that I'm not all that into and when that ending came with a rather abrupt conclusion in the sense that I didn't feel that the protagonists really communicated to one another, I simply had to lower my rating to simply "liked it".

I have no trouble believing that tragedy such as kidnapping can bring people together quite fast, but I have trouble calling it slow burn... You see, slow burn for me takes place over the course of weeks, months even. It's supposed to be *slow* and not have your characters proclaim love after a week.

On the upside, I quite liked the interaction I saw between Ben and Jason. I felt that they really did fit together rather nicely, I just wish that I had seen them grow close over a longer period of time.