Review: WHAT A PITY!!!!!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 13, 2013
This book would of become one of my favorite romance novels except for one fact.  SPOILER ALERT TO FOLLOW:I do not understand why so many romance writers insist on scarring the heroine during the progression of the story, especially when the hero has ZERO scars.  I disagree with one of the reviewers that thought the heroine was too perfect.  On the contrary her WHOLE back (from shoulders to hip was severely scarred by a flogging she endured.  It was disfiguring in nature the ten lashes she took, even more so, because the open, bleeding wounds became infected, and each laceration had to be cauterized, leaving her terribly scarred.  And to add insult to injury (for me), the reader is often reminded throughout the story about how she is horribly scarred and for life.  As if we had not been told early on, and in vivid details, these facts.  However, unlike the other reader I mentioned above, I absolutely loved that she was "ethreally" beautiful.  END OF SPOILER ALERT.If the reader does not mind the scenario I described in the spoiler alert, then I am confident that most will enjoy this book.  The story is achingly moving, the hero and heroine are great, and their love story is both tender and passionate, and utterly romantic.  I also loved that there was a lot of the hero's point of view.