Review: It Was Free
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
With a title;  "The Bride & the Brute", I hardly expected the hero to be nice, nor even wanted him to be.  What I find very objectionable in this story, as well as other stories like this one is:  That the heroine is almost instantly smitten with a man who treats her abominably.  I want (expect) her not to soften toward him, until he starts behaving with some  kind of regard, or something like that.In this story, the heroine is rejected and humiliated again and again, both publically and privately, by the hero, yet she keeps longing and hoping that he will learn to love her, and decide to keep her with him.  She might not have had any place to go, but her rushing often to his defense and forsaking her honor to protect him, goes beyond her need for a safe place.  Besides I just hate when the heroine sacrifices her pride to her need for the hero, especially a hero who is  so determined not to fall in love.