Review: Ugh
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2013
I purchased this book based on the relatively high number of 5 star reviews. Wow. What a mistake.It's terrible. I hate to write a bad review, but this book just stinks. The writing isn't very good; the characters are more caricatures; the plot is predictable and cliched. The hero and heroine aren't even that likeable.The hero is obnoxious, rude, overbearing and chauvinistic. It really bugs me when male characters start referring to the female character as "baby" and "sweetheart" right off the bat. It just comes across as condescending and obnoxious. And unfortunately, the author's attempt at making the hero likeable by giving him some nice habits just doesn't work. He's an ass.The heroine is a pissant. She swings from angry to weepy, and seriously? After escaping from a horribly abusive relationship she accepts the way the hero treats her - either overbearing and brutish or else as if she's a child - without drop kicking him to the curb? Come on.The bad guy was so predictable. I had him pegged from the first moment he met the heroine.The speed that relationships form in this book is ridiculously unrealistic. And yeah, in romance novels there is certainly quite a bit of artistic license on this point, but in this book it just makes the entire story line even more preposterous.I wanted to like this book. I did finish it, hoping it would get better. It didn't. I'm glad didn't purchase the second book.Not worth your time or money.