Review: Hero was a jerk
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2014
Spoilers ahead!When I read the synopsis of this book, I was interested in how the author would be able to pull the storyline off without having the 'hero' be as deviant a person as the uncle he was enacting revenge upon. How can you have your hero kidnap an innocent young woman with the intent of ruining her to punish her uncle, and have us think highly of his character?As anticipated, the hero was a jerk. He was rude, disrespectful, shallow, selfish, self-absorbed… I could do this all day. All he and his band of idiotic friends cared about was their own happiness and who wronged them- forget about the wrong they themselves had done. And, of course, since the hero was trying to overcome his tragic, loveless childhood, the heroine was constantly assuring him of her love without telling her 'I love you' in return.Add in the bizarre storyline of the 'valet was really the Duke's legitimate half brother' (boy wouldn't you be pissed that you had been raised as a servant?) and this book was ridiculous. I was furious with the heroine for not stabbing the hero in the heart and escaping him, and running off to live alone.