Review: Not my idea of a love story
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 3, 2014
Romance?  I don't really think so.  She didn't love her husband but she married him because her father told her she must.  Her husband didn't love her because he was a closet homosexual who married her for two reasons:  to put up a front to the public and so she could bear him a child to inherit his wealth.  I wasn't real fond of any of the characters in this book.  I couldn't really like a man who would marry just to hide his homosexuality.  I couldn't like a man who would cheat with his best friend's wife.  I couldn't like a woman who would cheat on her husband with his best friend.  I wish if she had to cheat she had at least gone a bit farther from home to pick her partner.  She did love his best friend but while she was willing to have an affair with him, she was NOT willing to divorce her husband to be with him.  I felt sorry for the child who was raised being lied to about the identity of his real father.  There are four more books in this series but I am not inclined to read any of them.Now, I have said that I did not consider this book a romance.  You know what I DO consider a romance?  A man and woman who marry for only one reason...because they love each other so much that they cannot even imagine a future without the other person in it.  I consider it romantic when a husband and wife take seriously their wedding vows and do not cheat on the spouse.  I consider it EXTREMELY romantic when the primary reason they do not cheat is because they love their spouse so much that they do not even WANT to cheat.  That's my idea of romance.