Broken Trails
I'm a sucker for a book about the Iditarod (everyone should also try Sue Henry's mystery, Murder on the Iditarod Trail, no lesbians, but, lots of Iditarod!) In this one it's about Lainey and Scotch. Lainey is a journalist who gets called in at the last minute to cover the end of the Iditarod. She gets intrigued by one of the mushers, Scotch, and when she gets back and her boss wants her to cover the entirety of training for an Iditarod, she suggests Scotch as the subject. Then as the twists twist, the story becomes Scotch also training Lainey to run in the Iditarod. They get closer of course, but Laliney has demons, and though not as many, so does Scotch. So there's back and forth, then there's the Iditarod itself. It takes up a good portion of the book, and honestly, after reading this I feel like it was more a book about the running of the Iditarod with a side of adventure and a hint of romance, then a romance set during the Iditarod. And, personally, I have no problem with that. Here and there it was a little slow, and there were some plot lines that just sorta disappeared and were forgotten unfortunately. But, I really enjoyed the Iditarod parts. Yep, there were a little, first this, second that, but, the author made that sorta work pretty well and the descriptions come alive. I was reading it during a colder than usual April and I could definitely feel the cold of where they were in places. An awesomely fun book and I have the urge to read the author's "Alaskan Bride" book too, although maybe I'll wait until it's warmer.
