Full Circle
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
To find what they need, they may need to relearn everything they thought they knew about love.
He’s a hotshot financial analyst who has lost it all. She’s a brokenhearted world traveler forced to come home and beg for money. His job hangs by a thread. Her dreams of making a difference in the world are circling the drain.
It’s a spectacularly bad time for romance, even on the charming stone streets of an English university town. But sparks fly—and danger threatens—when these two wounded souls are forced to work together to solve a mystery and right a wrong.
Sweet and thoughtful contemporary readStand-alone novelBook length: 86,000 wordsIncludes discussion questions for book clubs
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bunn mixes romance and light suspense in a proficient but somewhat lackluster read. Protagonist Adam Wright is a formerly self-absorbed actor turned crack investment analyst who is bitter about his father's abandonment. When he's hired by investment house Oxford Ventures, he falls hard for the boss's daughter, Kayla Austin. She has her own woes: her fiance has embezzled the money from the African relief project she was spearheading, leaving her brokenhearted and her venture virtually bankrupt. Together, Kayla and Adam seek to heal past wounds and discover who's sabotaging Kayla's father's company. Bunn (Heirs of Acadia series; The Lazarus Trap) successfully uses the rich backdrop of Oxford, England, as his setting, but the suspense never moves past a gentle simmer. The pacing slows in places; the romance between Kayla and Adam lacks much tension; and occasionally, Bunn resorts to stale prose such as "The air was spiced with Kayla's fragrance, and the heady scent of a better tomorrow." One bright spot is the story's sensitive handling of faith: Much of the plot hinges on what various characters intuit about God's leading, but in Bunn's capable hands, this is less forced than one might think. Bunn is a proficient writer, and despite its flaws, his fans should find this a mostly smooth read with a redemptive conclusion.
