The first of three books in The Kincaid Brides series, Out of Control focuses on the relationship between Rafe, the oldest of the Kincaid brothers, and Julia, a daughter of an abusive father who finds herself in need of rescue in the wild West. A departure from my normal reading fare, I read Out of Control as part of My Library Shelf and have to admit that the novel ended much better than I had originally anticipated.
Julia is fascinated with caverns she has discovered in Colorado and the fossils they contain. While on one of her explorations, she is attacked by a man and stranded in the cavern to die. Rafe hears her cries for help, comes to her rescue, and thus begins their adventure. As his relationship with Julia begins to flourish, Rafe finds himself seeking balance as he also tries to reconcile with his younger brothers Ethan and Seth, both emotionally and physically scarred from a childhood tragedy that continues to haunt them as adults.
The novel begins very slowly and plods along in an unexciting manner. However, when I finally reached the middle of the novel and the death of Julia’s abusive father (trust me, it is not a spoiler…….the reader can see it coming from the earliest pages of the novel), it seems as though Connealy’s writing improves tremendously and the story telling pulls the surviving readers into an adventure that is both satisfying and hopeful.
I have another novel in the series to read because of its inclusion on my library shelf. I’m not sure that I will read the final book in the series though. There are too many good books to read to waste my time on lackluster ones.
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