So I just wrote what practically amounts to a long blot post or a short article about romances and then I decided to delete it because this is a review, damnit, not a dissertation.

The point of that diatribe was that Milan (not exclusively, although relevantly) does an excellent job of writing the inside of character's heads and I sometimes think that romance novels could give the rest of fiction a tutorial in the conventions/tropes of affective language in the novel. Romances have developed a dialect of emotions where the signifiers manage to...signify more than usual by virtue of being in a romance novel. Familiarity with the conventions gives the language more weight and makes it easier to write about emotions because a system of signification has developed around the genre.

And that was the short version.

Anyway, this was a nice short read for that four hour layover I had in LAX today and only maybe kinda resulted in my purchasing the next book in the series. (My current mantra is "books are cheaper than clothes so buy books" although they are less reusable.)