Review: Not her best work...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2011
Having read several of Ms. Hunt's work, I really don't feel this is her best work.  The storyline is fine: the hero had lost his wife and unborn child, and he closed off his heart to love.  The heroine had lost as well, but her heart remained open to love.  It's a romance novel, so of course, everything ends well.So what's the problem?  The problem was the sex scenes and the chemistry between the two...or the lack of chemistry, I should say.  Sure, there was physical chemistry, but I wasn't convinced that these two truly developed an emotional bond.  At times, the hero was quite demeaning of the heroine.  I felt the heroine was too submissive, just forgiving him for all his meanness.  Even stranger, at the end, the last sex scene is weird, almost like a D/s relationship.  Not once in the book is the phrase "make love" mentioned, it was always the more crude word, and I don't mean "sex".  How is that supposed to convince the reader that the two have fallen in love?  Moreover, I had a problem with the scenes after their first sexual encounter.  I won't give it away, but let's just say the issue is with the heroine's hygiene.  It was just strange.Maybe Ms. Hunt rushed this one to publication so it could reach the market for the Christmas season.  It's a shame because the novel really did have potential.