Review: Skimming required...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2014
I didn't catch before I bought the book that it was originally published in 1990. As my kids would say "My bad." As I was reading it felt like an old Harlequin Romance so I went back and checked the publication dates and that was when I saw the original publish date and the e-book publication date. Although it may have been updated, it still had our heroine lamenting her lack of typing skills, so you know it was written 20 years ago.I couldn't get into the story. Chance our H, didn't really seem like a bad guy. He was upfront that he was still in love with our h and wanted to be with her. There was a little bit of contrived "bad boy" but it didn't make him bad. Our h, was not appealing at all. She is still in love with Chance and yet puts up all these road blocks. Her personality was cringe worthy.I think if the author had focused on the original issue between our characters the story would have been better. When they were young, Chance left to make his fortune asking our h to wait. He didn't keep in contact and she married someone else, a class A jerk. After the jerk commits suicide, the h is free. If the focus would have been he didn't keep in contact and she didn't wait, then there would have been a real conflict. Early in the book, the author says they understand the other person's position and were OK. Everything from that point on is contrived and just didn't work for me.I really struggled through the book and almost decided to not finish. Reading is for my enjoyment. So in the end, I skimmed to the end.