Review: I forced myself to finish
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2012
Yes, I forced myself to finish, I skimmed a good portion of the book just to get through it. Yes, some people might have a different opinion than me and actually like this book but not me. Reason why I didn't like it?I didn't like how Anna made a deal with a man she never met to go to a new country, to save a house and her mother. I might have understood if she had siblings but the excuse that she was prideful and didn't want her family to be ruined wasn't believable. In my opinion there might have been better options than making a deal with a man she met only moments before.Rowan and his brothers seem very afraid to let Anna know their secret about why they were aboard the ship before it went down. Yes it made sense for them to not tell her since they were prisoners on the ship. I just thought being imprisoned for being a Scot wasn't bad enough for them to keep it from her for so long. I mean if he felt reason enough to kiss Anna then I don't see why he couldn't be honest about the horror they went through. It wasn't like they committed a crime. They make it seem like they did something big and when Anna gets around to asking Quinn what happened to him the truth comes out just like that.The worse thing about this book was I felt no chemistry between the Rowan and Anna. I didn't believe they were in love at all. I did believe they were in lust though. I don't even think they had a decent enough conversation all they did was kiss, touch and have sex. There is a point when they get married and I literally just speeding my way through the pages. No substances at all to this story. I felt nothing between them. The absolute worse crime of any romance is to not feel any chemistry between the hero and the heroine. What makes it worse is when there is no chemistry and all they do is have sex.Oh and the end? The Colonel just happened to gain a heart and conscious? Really? I don't mind if a book has something that might not happen in the real world....I get it....we sometimes read to get away so everything doesn't exactly have to be how it would be in real life. I just don't think the author pulled it off here. One minute the Colonel was full of his pride beating a man the next he feels guilt and rethinks his life mistakes. All in a page and a half.I've read better with less pages.I don't mean to be harsh but it was a waste of my time.