Review: NOT VERY ROMANTIC
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2013
I was impressed by the cover but having read a few chapters into the book, I was really put off by it. To begin with, the heroine was really young and the hero much older (12 years) and he lusted after her! I suppose back in the days pedophile wasn't a crime but even then, the girl being only 17 years old and the man at 29? Totally gross and unnecessary. And to say that the girl was innocent was a joke. She came onto him and offered herself to him at every opportunity possible doesn't sound like the typical 17 year olds that I know of. I only hope my nieces don't act that way!Although the concept is pretty typical - man who doesn't want to marry because he knows that women only want him for his money and good looks falls madly in love with a young girl under his charge - I sense the idea that the author was trying to create some kind of romance and tension between the two. But it just stuck too much in my mind that a 29 year old lusted and bedded a 17 year old! In this day and age, he would have been arrested and locked up for good!Perhaps it would have eased my mind that she was 18 years old instead? Once again, maybe things back in those days were different as I know that women married rather young and 18 probably didn't differ that much from 17 years old. Still, it would have been nice if the hero resisted bedding the girl until she was at least older and they got to know each other better.I try not to write negative reviews since authors should get a chance to write how they want without negative judgement, and although this isn't really a negative review, I just didn't think it was very romantic or necessary to make the girl and guy so far apart in age and her throwing herself at him as if she was an experienced sex pot.