Review: Strong Male and Weak Female Lead Characters
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW - SO PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE THE SPOILERS...Meant for Her - This was an okay book.  I really loved Hank.  He was protective and honest and a great guy who loved his family.  I didn't care for Julie that much.  She sent Hank mixed signals and kept running from him.  Had I been Hank, I would not have gone after her at the end.  Other than Julie, I liked the story and the mystery.Meghan’s Wish - WOW!  I felt so terribly sorry for Liam.  Meghan was a horrible person/main female character. Shew knew Liam loved her and she knew how special she was to him, yet she didn't trust him.  Meghan's parents didn't want her seeing Liam because his dad had a reputation as a drunk, and her parents were snotty people who thought they were better than others.  So Liam and Meghan sneak around behind their back. While she's still a teenager, Meghan and Liam leave town not only because she's becomes pregnant, but because someone is trying to blame a fire on Liam.  Everything is fine for a number of years between them and now they have a beautiful daughter.  One day the sheriff from their hometown shows up and tells Meghan that he has proof Liam has gone back to their hometown and started fires.  She BELIEVES this guy and takes her daughter and leaves Liam without even asking!  Seriously!  Kidnapping charges should have been filed.  The daughter around the age of seven I think.  They when the daughter is around fifteen, she gets sick and needs a bone marrow transplant so Meghan shows back up to see is anyone is Liam's family would be a match.  She wasn't even planning on telling Liam his daughter is sick.  Unbelievable!  Then she learns he lives there and took the blame for the fires so she could visit her family if she wanted.  The truth comes out and the bad person is convicted and Liam takes her back and forgives her without any anger at all.  Loved Liam.  Hated  Meghan.  This was a very troubling story and not realistic.The One that Got Away - There seems to be a pattern in this author's book that the leading men are wonderful and women are annoying.  Colin was a wonderful man who has loved Gwen for years.  She had feelings for him also, but ignored them to date David, one of Colin's best friends.  David dies; they discover he was actually murdered; there is shooting; there is denying on the part of Gwen how they feel and there is mystery.  This book was really an okay read.Artful Deception - Rowan is a really super guy.  He's an undercover FBI agent trying to protect a painting. His wife and son have been kidnapped and he's being looked upon as a suspect.  No one knows he was fixing to file for divorce and that he has been unhappy in the marriage for over a year.  Or, that he has learned his wife lied about him being the father of the baby.  He's been in love with Becky since he first saw her six months earlier.  She's good with computers so he gets her to help look through his  wife's computer for clues.  I really liked Rowan.  Becky was okay.  Book itself is cute.