At one point I thought Phillip was biracial, but that isn’t how he reads in his standalone book, so I wonder if that was what Roberts was going for in this book and just dropped it. I have to wonder though at Roberts having Phillip and Ethan coming from Baltimore’s inner city and both are white. Ray Quinn and his wife sound like loving and generous people. He reminds me a bit too much of other Roberts romantic heroes in her trilogies, the former bad boy made good and I wanted to drown him at times. I honestly didn’t like Cameron this much. Roberts throws in a romantic entanglement with Cameron, with Seth’s social worker Anna. Dealing with Seth’s biological mother who seems to have other motives means that the Quinn brothers have a lot of issues going on. There is also a specter of small town gossip going around that Seth is their father’s biological son and that he also killed himself. That means that Cameron and his brothers are going to have to rearrange their lives and defer in some cases their dreams in order to do this. He and his brothers, Phillip and Ethan are all asked to help raise Seth in their family home. When Cameron returns to Maryland, he finds out that his father recently took in a 10 year old boy named Seth. I guess one can make money at that though I am still baffled by it. Cameron has been living in Europe and racing boats. “Sea Swept” follows Cameron Quinn who returns home after his father, Ray Quinn, is in an accident. Unfortunately it is repeated in all four of the books and I was bored by it. The flow of the book was all over the place I thought and then Roberts throws in some magical realism that didn’t fit the book at all. This book was written in 1998 I think so you can definitely see a lot of the older romance tropes that authors for the most part have turned away from (Cameron is slightly alpha and doesn’t listen to the word no from the heroine and just puts his hands on her when he wants to). The romance between Cameron and Anna (Seth’s social worker) did not work for me at all. This book really does a nice job of setting up the relationship between the brothers, how much they loved their parents, and them focusing on doing what their father wanted them to, helping to raise Seth, another brother that their father had just taken in. Each of the books in this series deals with a Quinn brother. The strongest book in the series is book #2 honestly. This book really is around 2 stars, but I rounded it up to 3 based on books #3 and #4 which were pretty terrible. So I lost my mind a little bit this weekend and read all four books in the series which is probably going to color my reviews cause I know what is coming.
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