Review: Worth the read, but not great
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2011
So, it was free and I've never read a book by Kensington before and I was curious. Plus it got a good review. It wasn't a bad read. All in all, I very much enjoyed the sexual tension and the characters were lovely. Lucien is a sexy hero. I wasn't expecting this to be an erotica. Nothing in the blurb gave that away. The sexual tension was ramped up quite high from the very beginning and I found that jarring. There really wasn't any build up of the sexual tension; it was just WHAM! right from the start. Not bad. Just wasn't expecting it and it was jarring to me. Also, there didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason why either of them really wanted the other so much. There didn't seem to be any concrete reasons given until about halfway through the book, when they started to get to know each other. I didn't find the actual conflict to be much of a believable conflict. I kept thinking, "why aren't they together?" She didn't care about his reputation, he had the money she needed, so what, really, was keeping them apart? And Lucien's falling so hard for her so quickly felt out of character for me, given that he was such a womanizer, when he didn't really know her very well. I also didn't like that he slept with other women during the course of the book. In my opinion, a hero shouldn't do that.The writing itself was very well done, but I did find the constant use of the blatant sexual language (the F word, the C word, to name a few) in relation to sex to be very jarring. It sounded very modern when the rest of the character's voices were meshed more with the time period. I get that it was likely done to ramp up the heat index, and I'm not offended by the words. It just didn't fit the time period for me. Also, the ending felt a little overdone. The emotions were over the top and I was actually rolling my eyes at some points. It was a bit overdone and cliche.But... sexy story, sexy hero and worth the read.