Review: Had potential...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2012
The theme is one of my favorites to read, but this book just didn't cut it for me. The author has talent, but I abandoned it a third of the way in. I bought it and returned it to Amazon the same day. (I've never done that before, and I'm an avid reader.) The language was anachronistic at times to the point that I could not overlook it. The characters are so wishy washy. Some reviewers called the heroine "plucky" but I just call her goofy: going to a long deserted castle a mile away from her house late at night--with no weapon or good sense evidently--because she sees a light inside. But wait there's more! And then calling out to the trespasser, thief, murderer, or whoever it might be that he'd better leave or else. Come on! It was downhill from there for me. The hero blows hot and cold with no consistency on whether he wants/needs/loves the heroine or not. (This just a few days after meeting her.) I never believed in their attraction. I cannot recommend this one.