Review: Good story, but could have been developed a bit more
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2014
I enjoyed this story a lot, but wished for a bit more character development.Olivia is blind.  Adrian is a rake of the first order.  You have some great fodder for a great story, but it just didn't come together for me.Had the reader not been told Olivia is blind, you wouldn't have noticed.  There is no emotional or physical "scars" that she struggles with.  She doesn't interact with people any differently because of it.  It really didn't influence the story at all which I thought a bit odd.Adrian was very one-dimensional.  We are led to believe that he is a first-class rake, but after rescuing Olivia from a prank gone wrong at a dance, he falls head over heels for her.  Why?  Throughout the story they don't even spend that much time together and do nothing more than kiss a few times.  That's enough for this seasoned man who had no thoughts of marriage to suddenly want to propose?  It just didn't ring true.  I also wondered about the age difference.  Olivia is 19, but the reader never really gets a solid idea of Adrian's age.I realize this is a novella, but it had such great bones that I was sorry it didn't have that "middle part" where the characters really get to know each other and a relationship is created.  A rushed HEA is created, but again, the reader isn't privy to it.  Griffin and Emily were interesting secondary characters, but I doubt I would pay $2.99 to get their abbreviated tale.