Review: Didn't like the hero...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2013
I have to say I was liking the story but it fell apart for me at the end. I just have to say that Derek was a jerk. Derek's brother and Elizabeth's sister had an issue 6 years before which disgraced her sister but Derek thought she was just a gold digger because his brother swore he didn't sleep with her (which ended up being a lie later). Derek decided that Elizabeth was a gold digger like he thinks her sister is and so he decides she's trying to capture him in to marriage. Because of this he feels that it's alright for him to take her virginity and leave her disgraced and then refuse to marry her. He falls in love with her while wooing her but that doesn't stop him from punishing her for what he thinks she's guilty of. He goes ahead and tried to ruin her life over a faulty assumption of what happened between her sister and his brother. I don't get how he could be so callus and cruel. After he leaves her in ruins he finds out that his brother is a liar and all around jerk. He goes after Elizabeth at a ball and I was annoyed with his real lack of sorrow for what he did. He pulls her away from the ball to somewhere private to talk. I don't know why she'd trust him to go off with him considering he'd already told her he was out to ruin her but she did (which made me not like Elizabeth as much because she was being a sap). When he get around to apologizing he says he's sorry because he was wrong about her sister...at no time did he say...Sorry I hurt you...sorry I tried to ruin you for something that wasn't your fault...sorry I was an ass. I mean I didn't really feel like he was very sorry at all and didn't really have to pay for his horrible actions at all. I just didn't feel their reunion and the end of the book just fell flat for me... :( Glad this was a free read because I would have been pissed if I'd have paid for this.