Review: One of the worst books I have ever read.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2013
I'm not understanding why so many reviewers thought this was a great book. The book is poorly written and has a terribly thought out plot. In one of the paragraphs the author began her sentence with the word "he" eight out of ten times. I found similar paragraphs throughout the book, it just doesn't flow. While that is frustrating the poorly thought out plot is much worse. Much of the time the author wrote scenes that were completely irrelevant to the story.The main characters were just plain stupid. They rarely talk or see each other beyond the week they are traveling to the hero's family ranch, yet they are in love. Stupid. I strongly dislike books where the H and h don't talk about or give any indication of their feelings and then feel heart broken because the other is letting them go. Ridiculous. Near the beginning the H and h get married to protect the h from her uncle. The h claims to be christian yet seems to not value or consider her marriage values at all. The H allows another woman to kiss him two times and hang all over him as well. Marriage is marriage, vows are vows, simple as that.I have never complained about the religious part in a book. I am a christian and even when the authors views differ from mine I have never complained about it because we are all different and I'm cool with that. That being said I found the religious parts in this book very irritating. The h talks about following Gods will and does everything but that. The one time that she probably did follow God's will because God put someone in her path to protect her, she felt like she had relied on herself and not God. All the other times that she was hiding out in her room or just being plain irritating by declaring to everyone a million times that she was leaving, were the times that she was praying to God for guidance.Last, it felt like the author did no research beyond reading other historical fiction. It seemed as if she said, "hm, in order to make this historical I will need to add.... a fever (she is unconscious for a week of course) were the victim is healed with tea made from the bark of a willow tree, an attempted rape were the h is so lucky not to actually be raped, storms that keep the H and h together, a H that is quick to anger and physical aggression but who won't actually hurt the girl, and a damsel in distress and a H willing to marry her, with no thought to himself, willing to save her.  Worse than all of that is that she ignored the one of the most important principles of that time, propriety. I man simply did not break down the door of a woman's hotel room while she is bathing and pull her out of the tub because he is so angry that he needs to talk to her immediately. A chaperone doesn't say, "sure brother sit alone with your girlfriend in her hotel room while she rests from her sunburn because I trust you". Ignorant. Don't waste your money.