Review: A Marriage Based on Lust Not Love (Contains Spoilers)
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2013
I hate when a book leads you to believe one thing then changes it midway through the book. I honestly do not understand the hero's attraction to her...spoilers...the heroine was kind of engaged (her words in the book) to someone else and strung along this guy (who was suppose to be her friend) for a full year while lusting after the hero. Then they get married on a dare because she is deeply religious and would not sleep with him until she was married, so basically, they married for sex. And then the author slowly starts adding in that they are in love and I am like when did they fall in love? They barely can have a conversation with each other without getting into an argument which they then solve with sex...That's not love, that's lust and a dysfunctional relationship. In the book, we don't even have the moment when they first meet we actually start a year after they met & with the heroine not being able to stand him (why? It doesn't really say except maybe because he flirted with her since he liked her and she didn't like it). Then to top off this crappy book, we find out the hero is half black...if he is half black then the race issue she decided to put in the book was a moot point. Mixed kids in this century don't pretend to be just white because they can get away with it. If your mixed you tell people oh I am black and white. You don't let people assume you are just white. AND, the young cousin, who is suppose to be smart, rather than going to UC Berkeley (the number 1 public university in the USA and a school the author MISSPELLED in the book) would rather go to Washington University? Are you kidding with me? AND, the heroine would go behind her sister's and brother in law's backs to help their daughter lie to them? Excuse me, but that is out of line she should try to convince her sister to listen to her daughter NOT go behind their backs.In conclusion, not a good book. Heroine is not very likeable and the hero is okay.  I understand it has a lot of positive reviews, but I would caution people from buying this book. I think the positive reviews mostly stem from people liking the religious aspects mixed with romance, but honestly I have seen better.