Review: Good start, bad ending...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2012
From the very beginning I fell in love with the h.  I loved seeing strong female characters that stand up for themselves and defy convention, especially in historical stories.  This h is exactly that.  The story developed well and the author did a great job of including enough angst in the story to keep me reading until the end.  Here is where my problem lies.  The end lacked resolution and any sort of closure for these characters.***SPOILERS*** After knowing that the H is having sex with prostitutes AND a mistress, the h finally has enough and leaves the H.  At this point of the story I am really bracing myself because the author has been very original thus far.  The OW is not evil or crazy and the H is not a complete jerk, he never lied to her, he could have redeemed himself.  Unfortunately, that was when the story went downhill for me.  The H doesn't stop his womanizing way instead he continues to see his mistress and only goes after the h after learning that she is pregnant.  They do not see each other again until she is in labor  The resolution was him telling her that he loved her and that he was never letting her go again.  That's it.  There was no talk about him being faithful in the future; at this point I am assuming that since the h was fine with it before that she would most likely not call him on it in the future.  There was no talk about the mistress.  There was no talk about how he was still in love with his ex wife, no apology for the other woman or how he had treated her.  Nothing.  The only thing that seemed to spur him in the h direction was the child, not his inability to be without the h.  As the h said, there would be other woman after he tired of this mistress and the readers where given nothing to believe that his actions would not be repeated in the future.  Again, I love a strong h but hate when authors kill her by making them settle for a second-rate end.  I just could not see this h settling for two lines after how she was treated by the H.  We are told that two days later she returned and that the H slowly had to close the door on his wife which to me just didn't show his deep love and commitment to the h.  To his ex-wife, the one he had always been faithful to, absolutely.  I could even see him doing this for his child but I don't think the H and the h would have ended up living together if not for their child because apparently their love was not enough.