Review: Pathetic Heroine Made Me Cringe *Spoilers*
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2013
I could forgive the heroine for her foolish actions and extreme schoolgirl crush on the hero when she was sixteen but thirteen years later, she was still acting like that clingy, immature, petulant teenager. She held a ton of resentment for the hero in present day due to what he did when they were teens but she was just as much if not more to blame for what happened than he was. She threw herself at him knowing that he had no idea who she was and when he took her up on her offer without proclaiming his undying love to her, she was devastated.If she was still that sore about it over a decade later, why was she the one initiating every single sexual act they had as adults? Apparently she didn't understand the concept of playing hard to get and I really disliked the air of desperation she had about her whenever she was within a foot of the hero.The hero was nothing to brag about either. He was just a little too cool and self-possessed for my liking.  He didn't act like a man in love, even at the end. I guess I didn't like that the feelings were so one-sided. The heroine had this obsessive, needy love for him for years and years and in the last few pages, he makes some ambiguous remark about how he's pretty sure he's loved her all along too. When was that? He made a half-assed attempt to apologize to her when they were teens and when he couldn't find her, he went on with his life like nothing happened. He lived the life of the ultimate bachelor, having casual affairs with long-legged blondes (his preference, even though the heroine is a petite brunette) and then leaving when things got serious. He didn't even recognize the heroine when he saw her again as an adult! Does that sound like a man in love?