Review: pass on this one
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2013
I have like some of Ms. Fish's other writings, but this one didn't click. Jane had waited for Stephen to return to her, but then when he does, she spurns him. It's difficult to like a heroine who has problems of her own making. Yes, Stephen proposes while he's drunk. He's tortured, and Jane knows this. Yet she gives no quarter and seems unforgiving. This makes it difficult to root for a romance between the two. I gave up on it early, thinking that even if Stephen was wrong to propose while drunk, he probably deserved better than shrewish Jane anyway.