Review: Frustrating
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 30, 2014
Our heroine is a seventeen year old girl serving at court.  She knows her father has been considering whom she should marry.  There is a man she has dreamed of marrying, however it turns out her hand in marriage is given to the man's best friend.Our hero has proven himself in battle and in service to the throne.  He is being awarded a prestigious position in Spain.  The night he learns which lady he will marry is the first time he sees the heroine.  He finds her to be quite lovely.Of course the heroine is at first slightly put off by the man's size.  He is tall and broad.  She wonders if he is anything more than a big oaf.  But he finds himself so smitten with her, he sets out to win her approval and her heart.I found my sympathies to be entirely with the hero in this story.  Our heroine acts very much like the child she is.  While I believe her character is to come across as spirited, I thought she was a bit of a brat.  She is constantly upset and unable to eat or drink -- or she is hanging her head -- or covering her face.When the hero and his best friend get into a disagreement, she wonders if the best friend started trouble because he finally wished to marry her.  Is she really that conceited?  Even she acknowledged he had barely given her the time of day before.  I couldn't fathom where that idea came from.This one was OK, but not the most riveting story.