Review: I Just Wanted More Romance! (And less of the sister)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 28, 2012
Isabelle is a poverty-stricken young woman with a past, a loser of a father, and a beautiful younger sister to care for.  When she is offered the position of a secretary for a wealthy gentleman, she accepts, even though deep down, she believes the offer will likely morph into something tawdry once she arrives. But who awaits her is Jonathan, a man whose face and body were ruined in a massive fire. And when I say ruined, this isn't a dainty, dashing, singular scar we're talking about here; this guy's been through hell. Master and employee slowly form a bond of friendship, and you really do root for the two of them to finally get together.  Unfortunately, when they do, the author pretty much glosses over the sex scenes. In a book with this much emotional investment, it's not really the sex that I want to be a part of but the intimacy that often accompanies those scenes: the characters having meaningful conversations, waking up together, etc...That aspect of the story was just missing.The secondary plot development regarding Isabelle's sister and Jonathan's only friend, Dr. Garrick, also didn't work for me. She was 17 and he was in his late 50s. I'm all for a silver fox, but this girl, Jenny, was so immature and sugary sweet that I couldn't stand her. I can't imagine an educated character like Garrick would want much to do with her either, but alas he's smitten, seemingly out of nowhere. It really didn't add anything to the story for me, and I found myself just skipping the pages where Jenny and Garrick's "romance" was the focus.I think the book is for sure worth the read, and I hope that the author produces more work, because the emotional depth was there, I just wish there'd been more events and romantic description to back it up.  Oh, and I absolutely HATED the epilogue! Depressing. Ugh.