Review: ‘He Can Fall’ by Melinda Leigh
He Can Fall
by Melinda LeighSeries: She Can #4.5
Published by StoryFront on April 23, 2014
SubGenres: Romantic Suspense
Format: eBook
Source: Purchased
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When security expert Sean Wilson takes his wife, Amanda, along on a business trip to an isolated bed and breakfast, he’s hoping to combine work and pleasure. But when four armed men storm the inn and take the staff and his wife hostage, the romantic getaway is over. A former army Ranger, Sean will do anything to save his wife, and when he finds the seven-year-old granddaughter of the innkeeper in the snowy woods, the situation becomes more dire. Sean must get the child to safety, but as the armed men become increasingly hostile and violent, Amanda’s life is also on the line. Cut off from help and spurred by desperation, Sean and Amanda must make hard choices that could get them all killed.
Thriller Award nominee and bestselling romantic suspense author Melinda Leigh delivers a page-turning story of love, fear, and desperate choices.
He Can Fall is a fast-paced romantic suspense short story that has a lot of action and drama to it. Melinda does a great job on developing her characters and her story without leaving the readers hanging and wanting more. Usually, short stories will have readers begging for more, but Melinda did a fantastic job on putting her usual writing style of full-length novels to a short story version. We have a story of characters that are thrown into chaos when the unthinkable happens. What I always enjoy about Melinda’s stories are how she creates a story and a world where readers will feel for the characters and want to help solve the crime/mystery of what is going on with the characters.
I enjoyed reading this short story, and I loved the characters in the story. We have the former army ranger, Sean, who is forced to use his army skills again and his wife, Amanda, who gets put into a dire situation, but she handles it pretty well.
If you have meant to read Melinda Leigh’s books, then you can go ahead and read this short novella first. You don’t have to read this in order with the other books. This is a great way to check out Melinda’s books and also get your feelings into the romantic suspense genre.
I give this short story 5 full moons and recommend it to romantic suspense readers out there.
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About Melinda Leigh
#1 Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author Melinda Leigh is a fully recovered banker who learned that writing books is way more fun than analyzing financial statements. Melinda’s debut novel, SHE CAN RUN, was nominated for Best First Novel by the International Thriller Writers. Since then, she has garnered numerous writing accolades, including two RITA® Award nominations and an induction into the NJ Romance Writers Hall of Fame. Her novels have sold more than 7.5 million copies across the world. Melinda loves martial arts, rescue dogs, and sea turtles.
My obsession with reading started over 30+ years ago when I went to my first Scholastic Book Fair and found R.L. Stine's Fear Street series. Later, I came across Anne Rice's novels at my public library when I was fourteen when my obsession with vampires started. I was the girl who preferred to be a vampire over a princess any day. My husband says I would leave him a heartbeat for a vampire that looked like Spike or Angel (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries. (It's true, though, and he's accepted it.)
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