Review: Great Characters but too Many "Major" Characters
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2014
This book had some great characters - but... normally, in a book of this length, the author is able to fully flesh out the relationship between the primary H/h while filling out the story with the lesser characters within the the main story.  In this book, although I loved Adam - in fact, there was the potential for his character to be one of the best among heroes in this genre of the books I have read - there just weren't enough pages given over to Adam and Grace.I may not have read as many books as some, but I have read about 1000 historical romance novels during the past couple of years.  So... I think I have the right to state again - there was potential in Adam's character to be one of the best ever.  Grace also had super potential but with the amount of storyline given over to Matthew and Victoria, there wasn't room for the slow, romantic build-up in the development of the romance between Adam and Grace.Also, Stephen Shay had the potential to be a grand villain but, there again - not enough was made of his villainy.  Yes, he was a brute and we finally get to read about just how and why he was so intent on having Grace, albeit not until the book was pretty much over. Indeed, when Grace finally reveals the truth of exactly how and what happened in her young life, the truth was horrible just as the reader suspected it might be.  But, at the end of the day, Stephen's deed was done many years ago and although the reader is thinking there will be another big crisis when he actually finds Grace, that part just kinda bombed for me - totally predictable and uninteresting.