Moonstruck Lovers

Castle Mountain #2

by JoAnn Ross

HIGHLY ILLOGICAL

Scientist Dylan Prescott had never pictured himself as a swashbuckler--until he ended up in another solar system! There he close encountered the ever-controlled, logical Julianna Valderian who had been convicted of treason. To save her Dylan needed to get them back to Earth. The hard part was knowing which temptation was stronger--the impulse to strangle the exasperating Julianna or the urge to drag her off to bed.

Maybe it was time to test out human physical love, Julianna told herself. After all, she studied aliens. Experimenting with Dylan was risky: logic said that together their physical elements were pure chemistry, while caution argued their emotional components were highly explosive. Or was she just scared of this human emotion called love?

Genres: Romance, Harlequin

Mass Market Paperback

First published February 1, 1993

About the author

New York Times bestselling author JoAnn Ross has written over a hundred novels for a bunch of publishers. Two of her titles have been excerpted in Cosmo and her books have also been published by the Doubleday, Rhapsody, Literary Guild, and Mystery Guild book clubs.

A member of the Romance Writers of America's Honor Roll of best-selling authors, she's won several awards, including Romantic Times's Career Achievement Awards in both category and contemporary single title.

Currently writing a new Honeymoon Harbor series for HQN set on the Washington peninsula, that will launch in April, 2018, JoAnn lives with her husband (her high school sweetheart, who proposed at the sea wall where her Shelter Bay books are set), in the Pacific Northwest.

Reviews

[Anna Erishkigal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this after a good experience with the first book in this series, Star Crossed Lovers. This one had much more of a sci-fi flavor to it since the hero borrowed his new alien brother-in-laws device to make a trip back to the home planet to clear his name. The characters were credible and likeable, but because this book, by necessity due to it's out-of-this-world setting, required much more of a sci-fi background, the plot fell a bit flat. The hero adjusted too readily to a strange world to be credible. Just visit a foreign country, for example. NOBODY adjusts that easily. The whole reason the bad guys were after them was, again, contrived. So was the planets fate at the end. It wasn't necessary.

Still ... I'm giving this book 4 stars. This is a romance novel, not a sci-fi novel, so judging by Isaac Asimov standards would not be fair. As a romance, it was a wonderful, light read that leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy at the end. The characters worked out their differences in a credible manner and by the end you honestly believe they're going to be able to KEEP working things out and stay together. I will look for other works by this author to buy and hope she continues to research her sci-fi background and incorporates it into her romances.

[Angie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it as a teen!