Review: Buyer beware, this is not for the faint or tender hearted.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2013
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this author has her ups and downs and this one is a down although well written. I expected a really romantic but angsty read based on the reviews but honestly it wasn't at all like that. Here is a brief summary as none of the other reviewers gave a decent one:Our H was the younger son of a noble and his older brother cheated him out of his inheritance. He'd been betrothed to the h but when her father heard he'd lost his inheritance, the betrothal was broken. The h pined after the betrothal even though she didn't really know the H so her brother (now a Duke) pays the H to break her heart so that she will wed the man he had chosen for her. The h hates the match her brother wants for her. The H begins to court her and she falls desperately for him and she's so sweet and innocent in all of this, all the while he is plotting. The h is inadvertently ruined when the brother confronts the whole issue and so the h is sent packing to the colonies and the H believes that she betrayed him by telling her brother a secret that the H had entrusted her with. In Charlestown a few months later, the H and h encounter one another again but they continuously clash and fight. The h's cousin and the H are smugglers and the h gets abducted by the H to help take care of the cousin who is injured.The H and h fight throughout the book and I couldn't stand the H. He is a whiny jackass and although I didn't love the h, she certainly didn't deserve the way he treated her. How she actually loved him I will never understand. I wish she'd resisted him more.***Spoilers***This excerpt sums up the problems I had with this book ' He'd taken her greatest possession without a single word of love, or even comfort.' He never felt remorse or any sort of tenderness towards her after taking her innocence and he never gave her pleasure when he did it either.Later (the next day I think) he says ' He was what he was..and she was no longer a virgin besides. The damage had been done.' What a flipping prince. At that spectacular time (not) he then gets her confession of love, gets her to say it again and then, of course, doesn't reciprocate.I swear I would have returned the book if it hadn't cost so little. Read this at your own peril.