Review: Not bad, but not very satisfying
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2012
The story was not bad. I was a bit disappointed, though, when the main characters turned out to be little more than cliches, though. The female lead was a twit and the male lead was a walking temper tantrum. Most of this author's characters are much more dynamic. I did finish the whole story, though by mid way through, I stopped fighting the urge to skip the boring monolog just to find out how it was going to end. I don't know, maybe I wasn't in the right mood for this type of book when I read it. But then again, the heroine really, really was a twit.Gist of the story: Knight sees girl in a field and decides he wants to marry her. Her grandfather has decided that she's never going to marry, so he tells lies about the knight so that she would rather run away to the convent. The grandfather then tells the knight he gets one week to woo the girl--while he escorts her to the convent. The grandfather then throws a butt-load of knights at the would-be suitor while the twit's pets annoy him endlessly and the twit herself gets him into trouble. I never figured out why he didn't wake up and realize she was a twit and not worth the effort, but he didn't. After the third fake attacker knocks him down a ravine, she falls down after him--because she's a twit--and h e kisses her. The he insults her. Then they get into a mud fight. Then they went to a fair and he bought her a bunch of stuff, because the whole baggage train of stuff she brought with her apparently wasn't enough. And then she chose a mail tunic for him because it was the shiniest. And then another fake attacker came and the knight managed not to loose this time, so he was in a better mood. Then she decides she's in love with him because he bought her a tent. Then they slept together. Then they arrived at the abbey and the twit realizes that she'd been had. Then the knight and the grandfather get into a fight. At this point, I skipped to the last page, so I don't know what happened after the two grown men started rolling in the dirt.