Review: A third of the way done and I'm struggling to finish
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
I might have gotten suckered in by the other reviews and the price but I'm seriously struggling to finish this.So many words and pages spent discussing how the hero and heroine want each other.  I get it already.  But despite her past (I won't comment on this anymore than I have to in order not to spoil the plot) she allows him to take verbal and physical liberties from the very beginning all the while knowing that he only wants her as a mistress.  And *then* he has the brilliant idea that if he gets her to think that he only wants her as a mistress and not a wife he'll earn her trust and get her to the altar.  Knowing what he knows of her dead husband's treatment (although he doesn't know how bad it was) he thinks this is a good idea.  Mmmmmmkay.We won't even get to the parts where they both repeatedly act so far out of the accepted standards of society for that period.  She answers her door at night in a knee-length shift?  Really?  In a house with two bachelors ... one of whom has made his physical intentions perfectly clear?  I'm not buying what the author is trying to sell but ...I'm working my way through the final 2/3 of the book because I keep hoping I'll be proven wrong at some point.