Review: Problematic
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2013
I had high hopes for this book because who doesn't love a story about an intriguing rake and an innocent h? The first half of the book wasn't bad but things started to unravel and truly I don't think the author had built the story up enough to support the kind of depth of emotion we needed to believe in at the end. I know this is a bit vague so I'm going to have to give spoilers below.***Spoilers***I'm all for rogues who are secretly tormented but then, to be fair, an author should build that storyline from the beginning and not fling it upon us at the end. Basically the H had supposedly been deeply in love with a parson's daughter who'd broken things off with him and then gone on to bear him a daughter. This was described in a paragraph. Why would a parson's daughter not have married the father of her unborn child, nor told him? It wasn't believable. Also if he were so honourable, especially as a loving father, why was he so determined to be dishonourable with the h? Honestly the author just didn't pull this all off for me. There were also all the other bits of the story that didn't make sense like the unchaperoned h staying at the H's house for ages without anyone caring. Would never have happened back in the day.