Review: Boring, poorly written and full of mistakes
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2013
I bought this book because of all the great reviews. I love medieval romances and this looked as if it would be perfect for me, especially considering how much the reviewers apparently loved the book. Now I wonder if we`ve read the same book because the book I read was hard to work one`s way through (I started skipping pages half way through). Here is a list of some of my complaints:* The book was poorly written. So very often I caught mistakes where the author had written a word that sounded like the word she meant - only a different one. I almost expected to see a few your/you`re mistakes.* The book was poorly edited. Punctuations were missing, words were missing (one had to go back and try to fill in the blanks oneself) and sometimes sentences just didn`t make sense.* The storyline was SO contrived. It was like watching a bad soap.* The hero was unbelievable - and not in a good way. He *always* did the right thing and yet, when one thought about it, it just didn`t feel right. He`d been in love with the heroine since he left her ten years ago but hadn`t given her a moment`s thought or tried to get in contact with her? He held back because of the land? Oh, and the sex - the sex was awful. He kept apologizing for wanting her and not making her come because he *had to* deal with his own lust first. Is that even remotely sexy? Either he has sex with no apologies or he does what he should have done.* The heroine was so wishy-washy. She was supposed to be strong but she wasn`t. Always crying and screaming - but not when it would be natural for her to do so. She kisses the hero and then she tries to "save him" by insisting on marrying someone else.* I did not feel like the story was set in medieval times at all. One thing was the dialogue - very modern. But they were drinking tea a couple of hundred years before tea came to the British isles and the behavior between the hero and the heroine would definitely have been frowned upon by the people around them.* The villain was VERY villainous - almost like a cartoon and not credible at all.I really wanted to like this book but I couldn`t. And in the end I was so frustrated because I felt I`d thrown away valuable time reading it. I`m sure a lot of people are going to love this book - the raving reviews are an indication - but if you prefer books that are remotely credible in the description of human reactions and the time period they are taking place in, then this is not the book for you, I`m sorry to say.