I often read these Mills & Boon/Harlequin type romances as a pallette cleanser- a little punctuation between other, heftier books. They're predictable in the sense that you know you will have a happy ending, and you know your heart will flutter a little at the tall handsome man and the romantic interludes.
Dancing In The Moonlight did not fail to give all these things. But what surprised me was it did not follow the usual formula that the Harlequin books have fallen into as late- the Italian/Spanish/Greek/Martian Millionaire/Billionaire gets someone pregnant/forces someone to marry him/blackmails someone. And it was a relief. Whilst I am not a feminist, I certainly do find some of the more arrogant heros of these books quiet sexist and domineering, and not in a sexy way.
RaeAnne Thayne has indeed written about an arrogant, domineering man, but wrote him in such a way that he seems caring and quite lovely at the same time. She managed to crowbar in some background info for the characters at the beginning and in the middle, so the book has some good plot to follow, and she writes very tasteful, although still heart racing, love scenes.
Another thing that struck me was the lack of disabled people in most romance books. The female lead in this book has an amputated leg, and I found this added some character and class to this book, as she has made romance what it should be, which is stories about real people, not perfect people who don't exist in the real world.
Overall, a good romance, definitely more than worth the 1 pence it costs to download onto your kindle!
