Review: Hmmmm...MAJOR SPOILERS!!!!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2013
Okay, I could really like this book if it was not for the hero's vindictive behavior. He was hurt and instead of asking the heroine why she left, he makes bad choices. After first running into the heroine, he gets drunk and takes the town slut back to her place for sex, then he goes to church the next morning to sit beside the heroine so she can smell the sex on him as a payback for leaving him. Then, at another run in, he takes the same slut in a back room, making sure the heroine saw them, and lets her blow him then comes out and winks at the heroine.  I did not like him after that. The heroine is mad and hurt but once she understand that the hero thought she did not love him, she was forgiving of his behavior...?? What??? I would be mad as heck. The first time they actually TALK, he asks her why. Why could he not do that first instead of getting what he perceived as payback?? When he finds out why she stopped all contact, he was devastated in his mind because he knew he did wrong. That at least was good to put in the story but the heroine brushes it off and says she understands why he did that. He keeps thinking he will have to grovel and beg for her and is prepared to do it but the heroine tells him not too. I thought he should have been made to suffer for those actions. Why would you want to be with a man who would rather sleep with a woman half the town has been with because he would rather not ask you why earlier??? I would be mad at him for a while. He needed to prove himself more to me that he would be faithful to her and that he was actually sorry for his actions!!!! Other than that, it was a good book. I felt that since this thing with the hero occurred about 35% into the book, it was on my mind the rest of the time which kind of messed up the book for me. Could easily have been a 4 or 5 star rating if at least the hero having sex with the woman was taken out and the blow job scene stayed in. It just seemed more personal for us to read about the hero having sex with another woman after reading about their early feelings and their first time together. They both were not faithful through the 5 years apart so that evens out for me but this is when they are back in each others' lives so bugs me tremendously!!!