Review: Refreshingly good for this price point and genre
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 28, 2012
This is my first time reading this author, and although I enjoyed both of these short stories, I enjoyed the second one much more than the first.My biggest problem with the first story was that I found the writing a bit awkward in the early pages where Brighton builds up the innocence vs. desire of the heroine.  It was stilted enough that I almost put the book down but I'm glad I prevailed - it finished quite well and I was glad to find I enjoyed the entirety of the second story, without complaint.If you like scarred heroes and kind-hearted, lovely heroines, I would recommend these two shorts.  The heroes were scarred but not to the point where they turned into jerks/chauvinist pigs, and the heroines were consistent - somewhat innocent but strong enough to be gutsy.Despite my problems with the first story, I give this book five stars because they both were written much better (and with far fewer editing errors) than 90% of the books in this genre available on Amazon Kindle at this price point.  I also liked it enough that I will now be looking at other books written by Brighton.If you want a quickie, entertaining historical romance (or some might call this soft erotica) that is actually a good story in and of itself - it doesn't use cheap shots like the overuse of "dreaded misunderstandings" or one after the other, overblown sex scenes - you can't go wrong with these two well-done shorts.