Review: Oh, how I hate when heroines are made to grovel for no good reason
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 17, 2012
This book started out so well and I loved the heroine and how she hid first her own identity and then the identity of the highwayman she was trying to protect. She was the kind of heroine I love so dearly - clever, funny and one to never give up. I also liked the background story to this romance - the whole Robin Hood mystery where the men who`ve been robbed by the highwayman also had something to hide.But when she falls in love with the hero the book started to deteriorate. First of all, would a woman like her really fall in love with a man like him and jeopardize everything for a few kisses? Second of all, would she really - REALLY? - change personality overnight and start questioning everything she`s done (which has been good) just because the hero asks her a few questions? Third, the groveling. I had to skip sentences and paragraphs towards the end because there didn`t seem to be any limits to how much the heroine - who in my eyes had done very little wrong - had to grovel to the hero. He`d put her in a terrible position and yet she was the one who had to beg on her hands and knees?I had so high hopes for this book because it started out so well but I truly didn`t care for the way it ended. It felt as if the heroine changed personality and I started missing the strong heroine from the beginning of the book. I also had problems believing in the love between the hero and the heroine. She was his prisoner - would she really fall in love with her prison guard? And the way he acted towards her didn`t scream love to me. Lust perhaps, but not love.Therefor I can`t give it more than three stars.