Review: Not impressed
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2013
This is a Victorian era romance. Not the worst romance I've ever read but... not the greatest either. At least it was free. First of all, it is short. You think you are in the middle of the story and it ends at 66%. The rest are sneak peaks of other books. Second of all, I found the hero too selfish & just outright cruel and heroine absolutely without pride or any self respect. I understand that author is trying to say she was so much in love she didn't have control of herself but still, seems like she is a marionette with no brains of her own. It is also hard to believe she is so much in love just from seeing him one time when she was 15 (and especially considering he was at their home trying to hush up a scandal as his brother had ruined her older sister's reputation & hero's behavior didn't exactly recommend him)and then bumping into him a couple of times during her first season, without even being introduced. Attraction on her side seems purely physical, and on his as well. I would say they are "in lust" and not in love. There is nothing hero does to recommend himself in any other way than vain, prejudiced, haughty, and downright deliberately mean. Story end comes suddenly & doesn't make sense: after all hero had done to the heroine she just falls into his arms once he has changed his mind about her.I also found quite hard to believe in the beginning of the story when hero comes & picks up the heroine for a carriage ride alone, in a closed carriage, without a chaperone. Doesn't seem likely for mid-19th century.The only character I liked was heroine's mother: she actually stood up to the hero & put him in his place.Finally, I found author's description of hero's constant state of arousal a little distasteful. Again, author constantly reinforces sex, sex, sex in this book. That's all that's on hero's & heroine's minds every minute of every day.Perhaps this was the purpose, in which case it was accomplished. But not a love story.