Review: Discouragingly Trite
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2014
I wanted to like this. New Orleans, alpha male...what's not to enjoy? Unfortunately, the characters - particularly the heroine Lauren, are one dimensional. They are entirely reactive, darting from one misunderstanding to the next. The hero has redeeming qualities beyond his hotness; he loves Lauren and shows remarkable patience and fortitude where she is concerned. But he can't save the book. Unrealistic situations (a young woman raised in New Orleans society and an Eastern boarding school blithely running a Texas cattle ranch?!), cardboard emotional responses (I love you, no-hate you, nope-love you), and writing straight out of an early melodrama ruin a good premise. I would not recommend this to anyone with anything better to do with their time than scrub the kitchen floor.