Review: Really Liked It
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2013
Negative reviews are as helpful to a potential buyer as positive ones.  I finally decided to read this book, because of a negative review, where there was a complaint that the heroine was "too perfect".  I love for the heroine to be beautiful.  And if she is even more so after 5 years, and has easily lost all her baby weight after giving birth, all the better, fantastic in fact.  If I wanted a frumpy, over-weight heroine after a few years of marriage and babies, I would stick to real life, and not read romance books.  And how about when the hero is perfect?: rich, powerful, dashing, handsome, with a god's body?  I never hear complaints then.  Even in the review I mentioned above, the reviewer did not seem to mind that the hero was oh so handsome (at least it was not mentioned).  There seems to be a biased in many of the reviewers' minds: that it is great for the hero to be perfect, but no so the heroine.  I do not liked this unbalanced between a couple, where the hero is all that and the heroine is almost pathetic. I often wonder, if even in "fantasy land" there are people (like in real life) that resent a woman for no other reason than being beautiful.  I definitely don't.I love an alpha hero, but what I do not love (actually I hate it) is when he refuses to admit love for the heroine (even to himself) until the end of the book, as Travis did in this story.  What saved the book for me, is that he was so into the heroine, and I don't just mean for sex, he craved her companionship, and the heroine did not fall in love right away, and even when she did, she was philosophical about it.  She did not spent all her time internally wishing he would love her in return.  Besides the story was short, so that I did not have to suffer through pages and pages of the hero telling himself that he just wanted her.  I also liked a lot that the hero was significantly older than the heroine.  But most of all I very much enjoy Ms. Chance's writing style.  I love that she switches back and forth between the he & she point of views without having to wait for a whole chapter.  And she does give the reader plenty of insight into what the hero is thinking and feeling, even during love making, to me that makes the reading of her books extra special.