Review: Yawnfest...I'm Sorry
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2014
Looking back on this Kindle purchase, I now realize that I was desperate to fill the void in the Western Historical Romance genre that I've been experiencing lately; I've plowed through a myriad of Catherine Anderson, Jodi Thomas, and several other auto-buy authors.  Being a voracious reader, I read the premise of "An Unchained Love" and was intrigued with the beginning.On his way home to his hacienda, rancher Dustin comes across a lone cabin and decides to stop and ask for some neighborly assistance with shoeing his horse.  Though the farm's apparent owner, Hoover, begrudgingly assists, Dustin is horrified to find a young girl literally chained to the kitchen, forced to serve her Uncle Hoover as a cook.White Knight Time, right?  Well, Dustin does take the girl, Charlie, with him, convincing Hoover he needs her as a cook.  But first, he sleeps inside the cabin while the poor girl is locked in the frigid barn!  Jeez, man!  And poor Charlie is just glad to have someone be decent to her, I felt like she would've fallen for the first guy who didn't slap a manacle around her ankle.Something about the developing romance didn't ring true.  The conversations between all the characters, not just the hero and heroine, were stilted and simple.  And there were a lot of commas flying around where they shouldn't be.  The end was also so abrupt, I didn't think it was the actual ending.  It was like, "Will you marry me?" and "Yes, I'll marry you."  Ta-da!!!It as a quick read, and it had a lot of promise, but the characters and storyline just weren't fleshed out enough for me.