Is that one Wildfire at Midnight? My impression of the book is rather vague at this point, but IIRC the romance didn't work for me.
Generally speaking I find mid-twentieth-century romance plots a barren wasteland, and Stewart is using many of the common tropes (the hero and the heroine almost always dislike each other at the beginning, etc.), and yet somehow the way Stewart puts it together usually makes it work for me. I think it's because there usually is a moment where the hero and the heroine start working together, and at that point you can see that they do like and respect each other.
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Generally speaking I find mid-twentieth-century romance plots a barren wasteland, and Stewart is using many of the common tropes (the hero and the heroine almost always dislike each other at the beginning, etc.), and yet somehow the way Stewart puts it together usually makes it work for me. I think it's because there usually is a moment where the hero and the heroine start working together, and at that point you can see that they do like and respect each other.