Slow Dance by Rainbow Powell

Title: Slow Dance

Author: Rainbow Powell

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Publisher: HarperAudio

Length: Approximately 11 hours and 31 minutes

Source: Audiobook Purchased from Audible

Do you like to dance?  My husband and I enjoy dancing, although we don’t get to do it too often with our busy kids’ schedules.

Shiloh and Cary were best friends in high school and everyone around them expected them to get together.  Life did not work out that way and Shiloh went off to college while Cary shipped off to the Navy.  Over the years, the two keep passing back into each other’s life.  Is there a good time for a second chance at romance?

My thoughts on this novel:

·       This was the February pick for the Page-turners Book Club at the Kewaunee Public Library.  Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the meeting due to work commitments.

·       I had a really hard time with this book.  The plot move very slowly, and I had a hard time connecting with the characters or even liking them as people. 

·       I read about 100 pages of the novel and then I switched to the audiobook version which worked better for me.

·       This novel had lots and lots and lots of flashbacks.  I am usually a fan of flashbacks, but there were just too many through too many time periods in this one to keep me enjoying the story.

·       This was a second chance romance which is one of my favorite tropes.  I did like that it showed a different type of couple with a divorced mother of two living with her mother and a single military man trying to take care of his mother and family as well.

·       This was a steamy romance, although most of the steam was the end of the novel.

Overall, Slow Dance by Rainbow Powell was too slow of a dance of a novel for me.  I read it through to the end, but really didn’t enjoy the characters or story.