In my continuing effort to read the books I have stacked up and really want to read, but hadn't, I pulled out Heart Fate from 2008, the seventh book in the Celta series by Robin D. Owens. I really love this series, and enjoy the world so much that I was three-quarters of the way through before I realized that this is another example of a story without much plot. I wonder if someone who hadn't read in the series before would enjoy this book. Not only is the heroine, Lahsin, seventeen and hiding on an estate, the hero, Tinne, twenty-three, has been divorced only a few hours before he meets up with the heroine. Most of the action involves Lahsin discovering and uncovering the world of the estate and befriending Tinne and a sentient dog who lives there.

In the context of Celta, and knowing these characters are HeartMates, it's not too shocking, even sweet in some ways, that they are falling into in love and into bed within three weeks or so, but for an outside reader, not so much, perhaps.

Possibly even the author might have preferred that the heroine be older, but could have been trapped in her old worldbuilding since she needed the heroine to be at a certain stage of her life, and in this world, that happens at seventeen.

What do you think? Do you have a problem with a sexually-active seventeen-year-old in an adult romance novel?

 

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