Review: Forgot To Include The Why
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2012
(If you bought the paperback version of James latest full length release, then you may already have this novella. It was not included in the ebook release.)I did not love this short. The heroine felt unrealistic to me. A 34 year old financially independent woman with three children isn't going to act like this. Phoebe and Griffin spent less than 24 hours together after their arranged marriage. 14 years later he appears and expects to resume his role in her life. Phoebe goes from wanting a divorce to wanting to hit the sheets in less than five lines. She says hey, let's get an annulment, he says no, she says okay, cool. Phoebe then spends the next several pages wondering if she's attractive enough for him. By the end of the day she decides she loves him. I'd hoped she'd at least require a guy to get her name right before having the kids call him Daddy, but I can't judge her by my standards. I can't judge her by her own, since she didn't seem to have any.Pleasantly written is about all I can say for this bizarre tale of a "good" pirate with Daddy issues and a wife in waiting. There's more physical development than emotional between the lead couple and not much for the side characters to do. Erratic characterization further distanced me from caring about Phoebe and Griffin's world. By the time I hit the double epilogues I was more than ready to move on.