Review: what a disappointment...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
This story is long for no reason.*** spoiler alert ***It's a story of a kingdom where women are oppressed and abused. And about another kingdom that bred alpha males and free-loving females. Half the book dwelled on h being such a meek submissive woman because of her upbringing. And goes on and on after the hero captures her, makes her his mate, and gives her confidence. It's basically the story of an abused childhood in the "Middle Ages" period. I put Middle Ages in quotes because the setting of the book is all made up.So the story is H captures h when she was on her way to marry into another kingdom. H finds h to be too timid but falls for her anyway because of course her beauty is unparalleled. h "sacrifices" herself to save her sister and mom. h of course is nonetheless attracted to her captor.And that's one thing that pisses me off when it comes to these kinds of stories of captive falling for captor. I understand Stockholm syndrome. But I don't think it happens overnight.To continue... H chooses h as his mate. And of course in his kingdom, there is only one mate for each man. And it's no simple attraction but a bond. Oh-Kay. Then there's the whole convenient scenario where H, H's brother, and H's sister ends up with the h, h's sister, and h's brother, respectively. So convenient.I say the book is a drag because I can tell you the whole story in less than 5 minutes. I don't know what the author was thinking when she wrote this. But most likely she was half distracted because the book jumps from one scene to another, then repeats the scene from a different POV, then drifts for a while. Frankly, I don't know the actual intent of the author.Bottom line? Don't bother.