Review: Certainly disappointed in Uncertainly...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2012
Story Summary:When Jacqueline's uncle, the man who raised her, dies unexpectedly, she returns to her childhood home to settle his affairs, hoping to pay off his debts, sell the house and head back to her normal life. Things are quickly complicated by the arrival of Lance, the object of her heated--and unrequited--teenage fantasies. He greets her with open arms, smoldering kisses and mind-blowing orgasms...but makes it clear that he wants to keep things casual. It's been years since he saw her, but Lance never managed to get Jack out of his head or his fantasies. He knows only too well, though, she has plenty of reason not to spare him a second thought. Despite that, it's clear her desire for him is still alive and well--and he's not above exploiting it. He'll keep things casual and give her what she wants, satisfying her every need, until she begs him to give her what he's wanted for years. Not just her body, but her love.My Opinion:To say I'm once again disappointed in some way by Fran Lee doesn't exactly describe how I feel. The story is well written and descriptive in a good way. Most of the sexuality and eroticism are nice even though it isn't by far as descriptive as some of the other erotic authors I've read but the overall tale lacked for me.To begin with Jack, Jacqueline, had a crush on Lance ten years ago but was rejected by him for reasons that went beyond her young understanding. So years later when she returns to bury and settle her uncle's overwhelming debt after his death she and Lance, of course, meet up again.Now, to be honest, that is mainly why I bought the story--the main plot seemed nice and occasionally it's nice to read about two would-be-lovers that finally get together. However, I should have taken a page from Lee's last story I read in where she has a hero who is always overshooting what the heroine wants and in that disregarding way abuses her love. Sex plays the main point for keeping them together and like usual her male uses it against the female. Only that isn't what bugged and disappointed me.What left me feeling as if the story was lacking was the fact that though her female has some grit, gumption, and a temper, she was a complete passive pushover when it came to the male using his "other head" to run roughshod over her. Once in a while she gave up a fight but always for the wrong reason or at the wrong moment.Her male, in the typical alpha fashion, goes in a very roundabout way to prove his love to the heroine when in actuality he doesn't. Instead, he claims he is only helping her to release some of his sexual frustration with her when he really is tricking her into an engagement without her even knowing so. Then to end all things with a f...in scene that's supposed to take the place of an apology, better proposal, or some better resolution and an "I love you" is something...I found really, really annoying (and I mind you it wasn't their f...in that bothered me but once again the lack of a more realistic resolution or some angry guts from a character who has shown grit that annoyed me). It also shows abuse of love to me in some slight manner.I guess it just reminded me too much of two other stories by Lee in where the male tricks the female into being with him. If that is the new caveman way of getting your woman and what you want at the same time, then what is love and the value of at least an honest start to/in a marriage is truly about?There are some other positive qualities about the story which are that the characters separately are good, the male does truly love the female and is just plain stupid and caveman-like in his ways of showing it, and where the male is stupid there the female is stupid by letting her temper get the best of her. In addition, it is steamy enough to satisfy some.My Overall Thought:It should have ended better, the male should have treated her better, and the female shouldn't have been such a sucker when it came to the male and capitulating. She should have also used her head more in several cases when it came to him--no matter that she had an Irish temper or not.Aside from everything above which seemed negative I put `Uncertainly Yours' was cute, but not cute enough for the price I paid.Other Details:Two main sex scenes, mostly oral and foreplay throughout the story, some spanking for non-sexual reasons, and an aggressive male who is redeemed by certain good qualities (almost gentlemanly ones) and a stupidly capitulating and placated-by-sex female who is likeable in other ways.