Review: Not a good book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2014
I read this book after it was re-edited. Since most of the negative reviews related to editing so I paid the asking price. I'm a pretty fast reader but this book was a trial for me. The style of writing is not good and I skimmed a lot because I was cringing so much. Basically the H spent many years with the h and her father on their ranch when he was much younger. He left 10 years previously to see the world and left a heartbroken 16 year old h behind. He returns at the request of the h's father because they are experiencing problems with their neighbour and the h's dad decides that the H must marry the h. Both agree to this and the story goes on.+++Spoilers+++I expected a marriage of convenience book, which I'm such a sucker for. This wasn't what this book was about really. It seemed to be filled with every cliche ever written and it drove me nuts. The h was supposed to be feisty but she just came off as stupid for the ridiculous things she did e.g. riding everywhere on her own in spite of the known dangers from the neighbours. She was forever challenging the H and then he'd kiss her senseless. She's in love with him but he doesn't believe in love as he'd been betrayed before. The part that really got on every last one of my nerves was the part where the H and h go to see her 'blood' brother, an American Indian. Reading it was agonising and then when the chief insists they marry  in the traditional way, they go ahead and from when they return until their wedding they openly sleep together in her father's house. Really? The H's former fiancée arrives in town and works with the villains. This kind of stuff continued throughout the book.Finally the timing of events was not sorted out in the re-editing process so there are still ridiculous inconsistencies with pregnancies, marriage dates etcI cannot recommend this book.