Review: Good but dry
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2014
I really did enjoy this story but much of it was less than stimulating reading.  The conversations were stiff and in my opinion didn't give the reader any sense of romance or passion.Louise is a wealthy and intelligent woman.  She hasn't met a man she could love in the manner of a wife for her husband.  And she thinks her fortune is her main attraction for men.  Her interests lie in engineering, a subject quite out of the norm for most women.She meets Lucas, a famous engineer and is immediately attracted to him.  However, he hears nasty things about her from a man he had known while at school.  Even though his mother and sister hold Louise in the highest of regard, he believes the tales and forbids his sister from continuing the friendship.He doesn't realize one of the major investors in his projects is Louise.  She uses the alias of Robert Adams because men wouldn't respect a woman's opinion in such matters.  Lucas eventually finds out he has gravely erred in his opinion of her, and that the man who spread malicious stories about her was a true villain.  It isn't long before he realizes he is in love with her.  She had acknowledged her feelings to him earlier, but that was the day he threw all the gossip about her back in her face.She never stopped loving him but thought he would never have a good opinion of her.Apparently this is based on a true story.  Perhaps the author didn't want to make it a warmer romance as these were two real individuals, but I would like to think their feelings for each other had a bit more passion.  It was all rather wooden and lifeless.A good story but unemotional.