Review: Award for most annoying heroine EVER goes to CLAIRE!!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2013
I bought the first book and this one together as they were recommended from a book club.  The first book was horrible!  Here is my review for book 1:This book contains one of the most infuriating heroines. This woman was a piece of work. She was cynical, pessimistic, mean, rude, cruel, catty, dishonest, selfish, insensitive, self serving, insecure, cold, harsh, and she was a liar. She took, but rarely gave. The relationship between her and the hero was so lopsided. There was limited, if any, reciprocity in the relationship. The hero, was swoon worthy! He was optimistic, kind, loving, caring, selfless, sensitive, secure, honest, sexy, strong, etc. He repeatedly took the heroines nonsense...he kept taking the beating and getting back up and going for more. The heroine treated the hero as if she were embarrassed by him and he was not worthy. Honestly, I felt as if the heroine deserved to be throttled. She definitely did not deserve to have the hero and that kind of love. I get her past...I do. BUT, the hero didn't do that to her. He proved, repeatedly, that he would NEVER treat her in such a manner, let alone hurt her. I understand her being guarded and a bit jaded, but she was downright CRUEL to the hero. The entire book was like this...not 50% with some reprieve but the WHOLE BOOK! The ending was nothing to write home about. You would think, after the entire book being about the heroine treating the hero like garbage and fighting him every step of their "relationship," that we would at least get a noteworthy conclusion. NOPE...DID NOT. So, that leaves me to read the next book because I purchased them both at the same time. If the second is a bad as this one, I will not complete the read.Now, this book (Mid Life Love: At Last) was worse.  The heroine continues to be so utterly annoying, as are her daughters, that 100 Johnathan's could not make up for her!  This woman just continues to be horrible!  She continues to be cynical, pessimistic, mean, rude, cruel, catty, dishonest, selfish, insensitive, self serving, insecure, cold/arctic, harsh, and a liar. She takes, but doesn't gave. The relationship between her and the hero continues to be so lopsided. Now add money to the mix!  Now Claire acts like royalty and so do her annoying daughters.  They treat Johnathan like he is an ATM machine and put on this earth solely to buy these ladies anything they want: cars, businesses, etc.  I felt soo bad for the hero.  He could do so much better!  All he asked from Claire was for her to try to be home by 6 every night to have dinner with him (swoon!), be honest and tell him if her ex continued to cause trouble for her so that he could protect her. You would have thought he asked for her to tap a vein or something!  She fought him EVERY. STEP. OF. THE WAY.  I don't understand why the author made this character, the heroine, that unlikable?!  I honestly did not want them together.  I wanted Johnathan to be with someone who loved, respected and cherished him as he deserved.  Claire did none of those things.  Now, the ending...WHAT.IN.THE.HECK.WAS.THAT!!!!!!!  The author left us with Claire not answering a very important question about whether she was with child.  We will never know.  Annoying Claire went out with a bang, racketing the annoying up to the maximum!  The ending was soo unsatisfactory!  I hope there is not going to be another book.