Good grief, there was a lot of sex in this book. I usually note when something’s not a clean romance, but there was a lot of flipping past pages to skip their acts of the horizontal tango. I think it was to the story’s detriment. I get that Mac and Isabella are passionate people and passionately in love, but so many sex moments really detracted from the emotional weight of the story. What they were dealing with was heavy, and normally I would be crying empathetically with their pain. It just didn’t happen in this book. Unlike the first book, I never had a chance to connect with that emotional core because of the sex. Sex, in the romance context, is all about emotions like love, intimacy, trust and passion whereas what happened with their split involved grief and loss and fear. Because it kept flipping from one to the other without a bridge between them (other than one implied), it kept the story from being as good as the plot could have been.
