Review: Couldn't like it!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2014
I really wanted to like this book, and was doing fairly well until the heroine invites the jerk who had her running away from their date the night before in tears over to her apartment and let's him practically rape her, humiliate her, insult her repeatedly then walk away. From that point on, I lost interest in the heroine's "struggles".  The aggressive backdoor action and the scene involving a dog were just too much.There were also way too many useless details given. Twice the author spells out a detailed shopping list of groceries being bought, several scenery descriptions and some irrelevant story about a John Colt, his trial and imprisonment I couldn't care less about. Then there's way too much repetitive reflection on the heroine's part about her past and the "terrible" things she endured, but here when you want the details so you can sympathize with her turmoil, you get none.I'm not sure whether this book is supposed to be a romance because there wasn't a male character introduced who could potentially be the hero, or if it was intended to be erotica, because it fell far from the mark with disconnected, humiliating sex. The heroine comes off as weak, insecure, and frankly, a little dumb, and I have no interest in her story.  A more inspiring story might have been that of her journey from being a prostitute's daughter living in a motel in New Mexico to a becoming successful journalist in New York.I won't be reading the rest of this series, that's for sure.