Title: Jurassic Heart
Series: N/A
Author: Anna Martin
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novel (200 pages)
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (December 27th, 2013)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥4.5Hearts
Blurb: When paleontologist Nick Eisenberg learns that someone thinks they have found velociraptor bones in Alberta, his curiosity overrides his desire to stay in London. After all, he’s one of the world’s leading experts on prehistoric predators and has always wanted to look for the velociraptor’s North American cousins. There’s only one problem: eco-conservationist Hunter Joseph. While Nick supervises the dig, Hunter rallies support from the locals to oppose the way the team is destroying the landscape in their search for dinosaur bones.
Nick and Hunter just cannot get along. Hunter is self-righteous and pouty. Nick is narrow-minded and geeky. But they have to figure out how to work on the same site without killing each other, especially since someone else out there seems determined to cause Nick more problems than he could have ever imagined.
Product Link: https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=4542
Reviewer: GiGi
Review: I am quickly becoming a big fan of Anna Martin. I was wondering how she would top Cricket, but she has, and with a wonderfully refreshing tale of adventure, mud and bones! I love that she combined paleontology with romance, making those geeky fossil lovers into hot heroes! Throughout the book, we learn several interesting bits of terminology regarding the field of paleontology. In fact, the author helps us out by giving us a dictionary of dino-terms in the beginning of the book.
The book brings us the competitiveness of the paleontologists, the dirt, mud and dust of the not so glamorous digs, and the methods of how a site is set up, how people organized site and reported, and the risks both physical and environmental this type of work includes. It was a very clever and exciting twist to have two opposing people, the environmental warrior, and dino-discovering doctor, be at odds with each other to the point of fisticuffs. But, you know what they say…opposites attract.
When Eric White, the original site-managing doctor gets attacked, Nick takes over the dig, expanding in a direction he knows will be a better path, and reorganizes using some of his best connections in the field. The dig is going well, full steam ahead until Hunter stops Nick’s dig to threaten him with a shut down due to environmental protection issues. The two get into an angry confrontation, the dig site is being sabotaged, and they still haven’t found Eric’s attacker, but something that cannot be denied through all the turmoil is Nick and Hunter’s attraction to each other.
Throwing in one more complication is Boner, Nick’s sometime lover and long time best friend working side by side with him on the dig. Is what Boner and Nick have romantic love and will Hunter and Nick’s affair get in the way of that? Can one even form a lasting relationship with such a big adversary? Will rains, sabotage, and attempted murder make all of these questions null and void? Too exciting to tell!
This is a great read, fast paced, entertaining and even educational! I’m impressed with Anna Martin’s research and creativity, oh yes and I can’t forget…very steamy romance writing skills!