Review: Needed more...SPOILERS
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2014
Nothing was solved for me. He was ashamed of what he made her when in a fit of anger made her his mistress instead of wife. He never took her anywhere because he did not want others to look down on her. He took other women though and the heroine knew of it which destroyed her sense of worth because she thought he was cheating on her. He never did cheat on her but she never learns that, he tells his mom that nothing ever happened with those girls but he just did not want to go alone to the theater so the heroine never knew this and it was a major part of her leaving him. He treated her like crap for over a year and only became a rake in the first place because it was expected of the man whom had the title to behave that way. That was stupid, he never had any joy in it but did bad things anyways. He was full of himself and walked all over the heroine. It would have been a good story if more was added on or if it showed how repentant he was but it ended abruptly. She told him why she kicked him out and he said he was sorry and stuff but he treated her that way for a YEAR because he was upset at her going somewhere with another guy after she turned down his marriage proposal of duty. It really needed MORE. He needed to truly understand the damage done to her and the hurt he caused, though naively done. I know he thought to spare her ridicule from others but he just hurt her again and again with taking other women to events he enjoyed and telling her she could not go when she asked if she could. Then to tell her about those nights because he sought absolution for taking someone else, when he only wanted her, and felt guilty. She was hurt by knowing he was with other women and thought he was telling her to be cruel sometimes, especially since he never took her ANYWHERE and she thought he was bedding all those other women, because they were opera dancers and of that sort. He needed to suffer and grovel to me, it would have made it a really good book.