Review: Rather shallow
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
I simply couldn't get into this book.  The characters, in my opinion, had no depth.  The storyline, once again in my opinion, was ridiculous.Our heroine is Sarah.  She has decided to become a highwayman support herself and the orphans she looks after.  Our hero is Byron, a peer of the realm. He has been summoned by the king and is on the road.  His back story is that he had been engaged to marry.  However, his fiancee had him take her on a hot air balloon ride.  A sudden storm, lightening strike and the balloon crashes.  He breaks a leg, and his fiancee breaks her back.  She commits suicide.  To add to his burdens, his father had left him in a mountain of debt.  He is thinking about committing suicide.His coach crashes, once again he is injured.  Sarah and her band of supposed thieves find him and take him back to a cottage to heal.  Of course we have the usual "he sees her in her bath" scene, and the usual amount of the heroine's  sniping at him while fighting her attraction to him.He returns to London, she is eventually caught.  She thinks she is going to be hung, but instead there is this weird trial where the couple is sentenced to marry.  To me this went beyond believable fantasy.  It wasn't even romantic fantasy to me.Her orphanage is going to be financed by royalty?  Really?  There are some sex scenes, and I have read worse.  This is a storyline that has been trotted out before, and it has definitely been better told in other books.  This one stretched the believable way too thin.I really don't recommend this one.