Review: Cliched and Overused Storyline
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 27, 2013
Spoilers...The secret baby plot has been done to death. I'm so tired of authors thinking it's perfectly acceptable for the heroine to keep that kind of secret from the hero for years and years and then give the most asinine excuses for not telling him to boot! Both the h and H were liars and I really didn't feel much sympathy for either of them. The hero lied and deliberately hurt the heroine when they were younger so she'd leave him and fulfill her dreams of going to college. Apparently his words were so hurtful that they didn't speak for 7 years even though they grew up together, they were high school sweethearts, and he was close to her entire family. He talked about how much he missed her and lurved her soooo much but he wasn't willing to do the long-distance thing for her? And 2 years after she left, he fell in love with someone else, married her, and had a child with her. But he had the audacity to be pissed off that the heroine didn't come running back to town for him once his wife passed away.Maybe the h had good reason to believe he never really cared for her since he was able to bounce back so quickly and marry someone else after cutting all ties with her. Maybe he should have gone to her and made the effort to show her how sorry he was for lying to her all those years ago and then slowly work to build a relationship with her.Because honestly, if I were to judge him solely on his actions, I'd say the heroine didn't mean very much to him and the wife was the true love of his life. That doesn't excuse the heroine  willfully keeping his daughter from him though. Suffice to say, I won't be reading the second installment.