Review: Boring and Contrived
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2013
Spoilers...There was too much telling, not enough showing. Why did the characters fall in love and when? There was one flashback of when they met and after just a few words exchanged between them, the hero told the heroine he was going to marry her. It was all so contrived and the characters were too one-dimensional.The plot was also pretty nonexistent. I got tired of hearing about the heroine pining over her lost love. And for how much the hero claimed to love the heroine he took his sweet time going to visit her once he was finally back in town. Of course the heroine welcomed him back with open arms after 7 years of not knowing whether he was dead or alive. I will give her credit for taking a stand and saying she couldnt be with him if he wouldn't tell her why he never came back to town if he was alive this whole time but that didnt last very long. By the end, she was willing to be with him no questions asked even though she suspected he'd hooked up with another woman and had a child with her. That's something most women would not be ok with, no matter how much they loved the hero. Of course everything was cleared up in the last 2 pages but I still didn't connect with either of them and frankly, didn't care what happened to them.