Review: Possibly the most misunderstandings I've ever read in one book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2014
I couldn't really warm up to the heroine and it was never clear why the hero loved her except that she didn't want him when he proposed...which post-marriage wouldn't be much of an incentive to stay in love. I do not recall one nice, sweet conversation they had, she was just soooo unpleasant All.The.Time. If there was a contest for the most misunderstandings in one book.  This would win hands down.  We had the TSTL heroine, the hero with a raging temper, neither of them ever asking "hey so what's going on here?" and for good measure ANOTHER couple whose relationship was marred by stubbornness and temper tantrums.  The heroine sits with the hero's former mistress at an intermission during the opera, she ditches her escort and walks alone...alone...to meet a woman who is known as a mistress, in a box in public view of the whole theater.  She says it's because the woman is her friend and she won't let society dictate to her but they'd only met once before - and the author forgets that we all know the heroine's real reason for going over there...to learn more about the hero.  Of course she gets mauled by some skeevy guy on her way back to her box and of course the hero saves her and she's all "she's my friend" and he's all "wow, your great", and she's all "yah I am".  And then she starts crabbing at him again.  I've read Ms. Baker before and I really like some of her stories but this one was painful.