Review: Lovely read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2013
Almost 4 stars.  I liked the premise of this story - scheming and false as it may seem ;-)  And have read others written over the same trope.  If you enjoy this theme, you should pick up Waking up with the Duke by Lorraine Heath or A Lady awakened by Cecilia Grant.  Both handle the same theme, and are wonderful stories.Captain Durant is a dyslexic impoverished scarred battle hero, who accepts the job of impregnating Lady Kelby in order to help his sick sister.  He gets the money and then refuses to actually do the deed, but is coerced into it by the lady in question.  Their romance takes off very very quickly and by day two he is apparently not only in love with the lady but also not ashamed to admit it to himself...  Although I actually found this very endearing to our hero, it did however happened a little too fast for my liking...There were a few things I did not enjoy about the novel, first of all when the story starts out. Our hero is in a BDSM club, which I have no objection to, except that it meant nothing to the story!  I guess it was a way of showing us how different they were and also to ensure that their first encounter occurs with our hero stark naked...  Although again, I am not sure why?  It didn't make sense, and the poor man is kneed in the groin by the heroine...  He spends the next couple of chapters ensuring the readers that he is not into BDSM, that he was only there because he was bored...  it seemed silly and with no consequence to the plot, so in my mind it should not have been there.The love scenes were lovely but a little too lovely actually in my mind.  These are completely strangers, he is basically a man whore or stud to her, so a bit of awkwardness would have been preferable in my mind.  Again, a thing the other two books mentioned above does very well...The villain thing fell a little flat as well, but then again, I do enjoy a romance without too much outside mystery or crime plotting, so I really shouldn't complain.All in all it was a nice little story, without too much character development, but a charming recommendable read.