Review: What on earth was this author thinking?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2013
This is a train smash of a book and I cannot begin to describe how bad it is in so many ways. It appears to be the author's first book and I usually try and avoid trashing first works but there are some unforgivable problems with this one. I read the teaser chapters and had my doubts but the book only cost $1 and it was short so I went for it. Our H is a male slut that sleeps with anyone and everyone. He is the 3rd son of a laird and has the morals of an alley cat. He finds the h unconscious outside of their keep and takes her to his room where the servants tend to her. He meanwhile is sleeping with one of the maids (his regular). One night he gets drunk and mistakenly falls into bed with the h and has sex with her. She thinks she is dreaming and we are led to believe later that she loses her virginity. The next morning they are discovered in bed together and the H says they will be married. This is all in the teaser chapters from Amazon so I'm not giving the story away. The h's background seems to be a mystery but then the H discovers that she married a neighbouring Laird, who was then poisoned at their wedding feast leaving the h a widow. The h remembers nothing of this. The story then follows what happens between the H and h. It is not a romantic story and is written badly on top of it. The book is littered with spelling mistakes, random errors and awful grammar in parts. However the reasons for me giving it the lowest possible rating are as follows:***Spoilers***The h is feisty and not enamoured with her new husband as he is always encouraging various woman. He doesn't introduce his wife when they go to the wedding of his childhood friend and accepts the open affection of various women in front of the h (he doesn't go as far as sleeping with them). At the wedding (midway through the book) the h gets truly angry with the H because of one of his floozies throwing herself at him and she ends up slapping him in front of his family. He goes after her and hits her in the face and the forces himself on her. Later the word rape is used to describe the encounter. I WILL NEVER ACCEPT this type of storyline. What makes it worse however is that the h never seems to have an issue over this and a day later sleeps with the H again and then thinks about speaking to one of his floozies about tips concerning 'making moves' on the H. The words 'making moves' are actually used in the book.I don't think I really have to go further than this for you to realise what kind of book this is.