Review: I've put off doing this review 2.5 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
Some days I really don't feel like being honest when I do my reviews and this is one of those days. I gave the first book by this author 3 stars and I'm finding it hard to do so again. Perhaps I should've waited for more reviews before buying this book (like I said I would in my review of the first book) but this one sounded good. My problems are similar to the last time, something didn't quite work and there is still that tendency to go over the top with certain scenes. Again there were silly mistakes like 'pain of lose' and 'making loving to her'. Overall it's the writing style and execution that doesn't work.+++Spoilers+++The story is that the h is betrothed and she is already staying in her fiancé's home before her wedding. She discovers that he is an awful person and he has already begun hitting her. She discovers him trying to rape a servant and he tells her that he'll be keeping mistresses etc once they marry. She decides to run off and is discovered by the H when some highwaymen are assaulting her. The H's brother is being held by the h's brother so he kidnaps her in order to make an exchange. The rest is fairly predictable. The H and h are both quite likeable but as I said there is just something missing in the way the author develops the characters. I think that although we know the H is attracted to the h and nearly ruins her a few times, he doesn't feel ready to commit so he tell her that he is going to leave her. However once she's taken again (rolling my eyes), he realises he does want her. It was very clichéd and the author didn't pull it off.Once again the author stretches credibility with some of her scenes, in this case the H is just about dead from a chest wound but he manages to get up and ride off after his wife is taken (yet again) by her ex-fiancé. Immediately afterwards he goes down with a deadly fever from the wound. The villain is so completely over the top so as to be ridiculous at times and the way the H's ex-lover connect with him to aid him get the h was beyond believable.In the end the clichés got me and I doubt that I'll read another book by this author.