Review: ONE OF THE WORST BOOKS I EVER READ
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2013
By the description of this book, I thought the male lead of this story, would not be the type of hero I hate: one who refuses to fall in love.  NO SUCH LUCK!  But he was a lot worse, than that.  I like alpha, possesive heroes, but the man in this book was just an abusive bully who disrespected and humiliated the heroine at every turn.The heroine was even worse, pathetically and instantly in love with the male lead and willing to take his abuse, without a shred of pride or back-bone.  For most of this book she spends her time agonizing on how he does not love her, while she is symbolically dying with love for him. Even when she realizes that he intends to marry someone else, while continuing to sleep with her on the side, her loves does not waiver.  She professes said love to him, adores him, and is available to him for whatever he wants, not matter how shabbily he treats her.  His behavior toward her is beyond despicable, for most of this terrible, terrible story.  And when he finally realizes his love for her (toward the end of the book), it is too little, too late, at least for me.It seems to me that in a lot of romance books, when the heroine is exceptionally beautiful (which I like), the author somehow has to punish her for said beauty, by having her fall in love with a jerk of a hero, who does his best not to love her in return. For me this a total turn off.  I do not find anything romantic about reading a story that until the end the heroine is rejected by the hero, except for lust of course.