Review: McCabe was Too McNasty a Hero!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2013
Genevieve has lost everything in "The Big Crash", including her livelihood of the family bakery and her drunken, abusive father. Her prospects of marriage are slim due to her height and bright red hair color, so she agrees to leave her shanty for marriage to Trey McCade, taciturn farmer.When Gen arrives and meets her new husband to be, he looks her up and down and announces "You're not ugly but you'll do." (Be still your beating hearts, Ladies. Be still them!) Trey is a divorcee whose ex cheated on him very publicly and blew through his funds.  Now he's distrustful of women and proceeds to put poor, meek Genevieve through emotional Hell. His moods are childish and border on temper tantrums, which is sooo not sexy, and he periodically threatens to beat her, then  in the next breath insists she has nothing to fear from him. Really?And then there's Genevieve. She is so wimpy that she's a door mat. She was in such a constant state of trying to soothe Scary Trey that I felt like I was watching an abusive relationship. But that was all explained away because the hero admitted he had a "jealous streak." Ya think? I just kept waiting for that turnaround moment when the hero realizes he's a jerk, and makes it up to her but it never happened. She was also described as giggling in nearly every paragraph! Her reactions to event seemed somehow off and inappropriate, which made me begin to think she had a screw loose.I think this was just a miss all the way around.I found myself wishing the heroine would go back to where she came from, and that Grey's younger brother, the most normal-seeming of the bunch, would get his own little story...