Review: I didn't love this book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2014
After really enjoying this author's latest book, I decided to read this book as it sounded intriguing. Basically the H has a card game with the h's father and when the h's father loses, he signs his daughter over as a servant to the H for a year. There is an immediate attraction between the two and the h does everything she can to resist the H. She is secretly engaged to another man, again as a result of her fathers gambling. This all blows up badly, there a misunderstandings and drama. None of it left me feeling good about the book and I didn't feel the love story.+++Spoilers+++This is one of those 'mistress' stories that I hate so much. The H eventually gets his way and sets the h up in his house in the city and she eventually falls pregnant but doesn't tell him. The drama ensues because she also doesn't tell him that she's engaged to a man that is threatening her and her disgusting father. I also think the H was fairly thick not to have worked out that she was engaged because of one of her father's deals. After all he'd made a similar deal, so he doesn't handle the situation well at all. I didn't like that he dishonoured the h and wasn't vaguely guilty and didn't plan to make things right with her. I didn't get the impression that he'd rush to marry her just because she was pregnant. Through all of this I also didn't like the h much, she wasn't a particularly sympathetic character so it made it hard to empathise with her.