Review: Not so sure about this one
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 1, 2013
I'm not so sure that co-written books are really my thing. Maybe that was part of the problem of this book for me, but maybe this book just caught me on a bad day. Rachel Higginson...well, she's my jam, but I've never read anything by Lila Felix. Higginson writes the female's point of view in this book and Felix writes the male's point of view.Felix's style just wasn't for me. Her overuse of pet names (the Hero constantly called the heroine 'Duchess') was pretty creep-tastic. Every time it happened, it ruined the vision of the hot, muscled, sweaty blacksmith I was supposed to have in my mind for him. It seems like a pet name a creepy old man would give to young girl...yucky. The hero was also a little too flowery in his descriptions of her. I don't like my book boyfriends to sound like Lord Byron, but that is a personal preference, and I completely realize this.These things were relatively small issues for me, but the plot line was the reason I only give the book two stars. Nothing really happens beyond the first couple of chapters. The heroine goes on a date with a guy that makes it clear she has to put out, so she steals his car, drives it drunk, and smashes it into a store front. End all real action.The rich socialite gets sent to a sheep farm, where, I feel like, things could've gotten REALLY funny. At one point, she is wearing heels trying to get sheep from one pasture to the other, but this comic gold mine was completely glossed over in favor of the hero waxing eloquent about how hot she is. The book would've been more entertaining if the authors had played up the humor a little more and laid off the poetry."She was so beautiful, I kept checking the horizon, making sure the sky hadn't fallen in her presence."Nope. I don't care about that ^^ Give me the action, give me the funny, give me a reason to like any of these characters. I just didn't find it here, which is super disappointing for such a hard core Higginson fan. I will never stop reading everything she puts out because most of the time, its a story I will read over and over again, but this one...it just wasn't for me. Although, I will note that tons of other people have loved it, so maybe its just a 'me' thing!