Review: I didn't like the H
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2014
+++Spoilers+++I fundamentally have a problem with books where the focus on the H plus another woman for most of the book. Basically the H and h were innocently dating as teenagers. They become very close but she moves towns when her parents die and they have a long distance relationship. He covers up for someone and ends up going to jail for it. He decides not to write or communicate with the h in any way when he is jailed and tells his father to tell her he doesn't want any contact with her. She faithfully writes to him but he doesn't even read the letters. She then gets date-raped, falls pregnant and ends up in truly difficult circumstances. Fast forward and the H gets out of jail, sees her in late pregnancy and leaves town without ever speaking to her. Ok so he was very young and I tried to make allowances for immaturity. He gets involved for 11 years in a steady, sexual relationship and doesn't leave this woman until near the end of the book. I didn't buy the love between the H and h. He describes her as not being very beautiful but he describes his lover as being drop dead gorgeous. Late in the book he sees the h's friend and thinks how beautiful she is but we never hear him speak like this about the h. Honestly I couldn't like him. He never went back home for more than a decade, not even to see his father who lived there. He only returned when he found out his father was sick. Another thing that irritated me is that at 82% in the H touches the h's hand and he thinks that there isn't electricity like with his lover but he can see long lazy nights of love-making. I'm sorry but I'm trying to buy into the hea of our main characters and don't want to be reading about the electricity between him and another woman. He still wasn't sure about whether to do anything about the h when he returned back to his home and his lover, this near the end of the book. I felt that the h was a bit of a doormat always in love with and pining for the H. I sincerely wished that she'd ended up with the male platonic friend she made during the difficult years as at least he was there for her. I don't think the h got her moment of adoration or the H ever expressing regrets for not speaking to her and finding out for so long. He only spoke to her after his dying father asked him to clear the air. I'm not convinced that an H like this would be in this relationship for the long haul.This is just my personal take but there is no way I'm reading another book like this.