Review: Disappointing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2013
I really wanted to like this story, butI had a hard time liking Kate (Kitty) McDermott. She seems to be twenty-four going on six. She runs away from situations, thinking only of herself. She refuses to talk things out.  She tells the hero, Dr. Drake Morgan,  to get lost, but when he doesn't call, she gets insulted. She whines about her father liking her brother better than her, about him not understanding her, and about him ‘running her life’, although it is apparent she has always done exactly as she chose to do. She is a liberal, so smug about her high moral ground and so sure that all republicans are dirty capitalist pigs, but is not above schmoozing with them when she needs donations for a favorite charity or for her father’s campaign for congress, where he is running as a republican. And her strong socialist beliefs don’t stop her from enjoying her father’s limousine service, his private box at the opera, and the other little niceties of wealth. In other words, I found her to be a hypocritical, whiny, cowardly, snob.  Although Kate considers herself a modern, independent, women’s lib type of woman, she is also enormously prudish, having hang-ups most women gave up in the sixties.Kate has a friend, Dawn, who is blackmailing her to drop Drake because Dawn doesn't think he’s good for Kate. Kate won’t tell Drake who is blackmailing her, insisting she ‘can’t’. No reason is ever given as to why she can’t. Even more unbelievably, she continues to worry about being home in case Dawn decides to drop by or making excuses as to why they can’t go to the movies together. Why on earth would one continue to socialize with someone who is blackmailing them? When things start looking up for Kate and Drake in spite of the blackmail threat, they give Dawn credit for forcing their relationship to become more than a D/s relationship. Seems to me, they could just have easily ended up giving her credit for breaking them up for good, causing them both to miss out on the love of their life, but their thoughts never go there.As for Drake, it was difficult for me to believe that a man who had it all, looks, wealth, prestige, power, confidence, and enormous sex appeal, would continue to chase someone so entirely self-absorbed, rude, and non-receptive as Kate.In spite of all that, it does turn out to be an entertaining, sensual love story that is well written, with few, if any grammatical errors.