Review: I should have known...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2014
One of these days I'll learn and remember that Cheryl Bolen is either incapable or unwilling to commit to quality story telling.  She's got good ideas and interesting, meaty concepts, but as I said in my earlier review of 'A Lady by Chance' she does not develop them.  Instead she sticks with cliched characters who are unable to maintain any kind of emotion for very long. The so-called tart-tongued heroine who is righteously angry because her husband calls her by his dead wife's name in the middle of sex gets over it within a page or two.  The hero who marries to have a 'mother' for his children resolves to not love her in one paragraph but then is daydreaming about her in the next paragraph.  I swear it's enough to give a reader literary whiplash.What could have been a really good book turned into absolutely boring drivel.  I gave 'A Lady by Chance' two stars for the premise even thought it was poorly executed.  I gave Cheyl Bolen a second chance by reading "To Take this Lord."  Given that she has churned out something in the neighborhood of 23 books since 2002, I don't think her chief interest is quality story telling.  I wish I could say it didn't upset me, but it does.