Review: Sweet But Not Entirely Satisfying
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2013
*sigh*I was so looking forward to this last book of the Wedded Women Quartet that perhaps my expectations were too high.  I loved the way Lord Melbourne interacted with Grace during the other books, the way he would catch her as she fell and put her back on his feet, the way he was always watching out for her. Unlike her friends, I didn't doubt his intentions for a moment.This book starts with a brokenhearted Grace because Melbourne jilted her and disappeared. He wasn't even very nice about it. And now her family's about to go under financially and she feels it's all her fault.Okay, I can deal with that. He must have some good reason right? Well, he comes back and unfortunately there's just not enough interaction between the two of them for me to find her forgiveness entirely plausible.  The story skips back and forth between the past and the present, and the past takes up a lot more time than (in my opinion) it should have. Did I enjoy the glimpses? Yes, but they could have been shorter and there could have been more interaction in the present. Personally I think that the explanation for why he left was a little too short and glossed over. I disliked that the explanation for the reader was pushed off until finally we get Grace's friend's reactions. I want to know exactly what Melbourne said TO GRACE. Because I'm not sure that I forgave him by the end of the book. I think that Grace had some pretty good points about why she still had the right to be upset, I was a little annoyed that her friends didn't agree and basically acted like she had NO right to be upset and I thought that overall the entire storyline in the present was far too rushed.It was like biting into a chocolate that I thought would have caramel and finding out that it's almond nougat instead. It's still good... just not as good and it's not really what I wanted or hoped for.