Review: Lacking in many ways
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2013
I gave this my best shot. Ms. Edwards' Aranean series is a pleasure to read, but I was drawn to this one because I prefer 3rd person narrative. It was a disappointment. The heroine is so one sided all I read is my agoraphobia this, my agoraphobia that. She has to explain her condition several times before the book is even a quarter finished and I got annoyed with it. There is little to her personality beyond that. Same goes for the hero. He is so burdened with his responsibilities (which he took on when he didn't have to) he martyrs himself and it consumes him. Even his involvement with the heroine is because he made her a responsibility and I didn't see much development beyond that. He jumped from "I'm going to do someone else's job, even though I'll get in trouble for it," to "I can't live without her. She is my sunshine." With nothing in between. I was rolling my eyes every time the hero just decided to hug or kiss or touch her and she was perfectly okay with it, even welcoming of his advances (and a few sentences ago she had trouble TALKING to a person, let alone touching one!).I read a few chapters of this, put it aside, and then had to remind myself that I was reading it to pick it up again. I stopped when it became a chore to continue reading. It just didn't hold my attention at all. There are some really fantastic ideas in this book which I wish Ms. Edwards had explored more, instead of focusing on the heroine's fears and a bad romance. It's too bad, really.