Review: 2.5 Stars
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2013
I'm probably going to go down in flames for this review but I have to be honest. Firstly let me say that I love this authors writing and I generally love  her books but this one bothered me a lot.***Spoilers***From the beginning the H adored the h and I liked that very much. What I didn't like is that he planned to seduce her from the beginning, knowing she was a virgin and knowing he wouldn't offer her marriage. This kind of story line spoils a romance for me. The author did her best to soften it for us by telling us of his love for the h all the way along but his motives weren't honourable and I didn't love that at all. When his brother seduced one of the other women in the house, he was good enough to offer marriage from the outset but not our H. My heart literally bled for this fact right up until more than 70% of the way through the book. For those of you who don't mind this type of plot, let me say the h didn't expect anything from him either, she was keeping secrets from him and more. It was just the honour side of things that bothered me. The H had his secrets too and the fact that he took the h's virginity without any promises truly bothered me. That he continued to sleep with her in the same way bothered me. No thoughts of pregnancy entered either of their minds, despite the fact that the brother's girl fell pregnant.The disappointing thing for me is that the secret the h was keeping from the H and the whole reason for her trying to stop the railroad was just so lame. When the H finally gets around to talking about marriage, her reasons for not wanting to are also lame. They were both so stubborn to the point of making the book unenjoyable towards the end.I was disappointed in this book because I've come to expect much more from this author.