Review: Vapid and silly
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2013
I read a fair amount of historical romance (Mary Balogh, Joanna Bourne, Cecelia Grant), but this was my first Eloise James book, and I'm in NO hurry to read another.  The characters speak like actors in a melodrama ("I would rather die than see my children follow in the footsteps of a bloody pirate"), and the narrative description is absurd ("Even his dark blond hair lent itself to that vision [hero as lion].  Although it was cut short, it sprang from his scalp like a shorn mane.  She was stricken by an edgy awareness that sent a flush of heat to her face, but she straightened her backbone.  She had to protect her children").Worst of all, the alpha-male nonsense is just plain offensive:  "She wanted a man -- Griffin -- to look at her with bold hunger, even if he tossed her on the bed, for all the world as if she were a possession rather than a woman."  GAH.  I wish someone had sunk this pirate's ship, leaving no survivors.