Review: I hate to give this 2 stars but...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2012
Ok so I normally really enjoy this author. I loved the neighbors from Hell series and actually really enjoyed Tall, Dark and Lonely. As much as I hate to give any book 2 stars I was so disappointed in this book.Chris is an absolute jerk in this book. And I don't mean, overbearing alpha kind of jerk, I mean cruel, selfish, and downright nasty. He spends the first part of the book saying that his "mate" is too weak for him. Apparently her only purpose for him is to be a fighter, when after the first day she is not a fighter, she is a nuisance and embarrassment that he can't wait to dump onto an island and out of his hair. On top of that, he repeatedly refers to her as a whore!The middle of the book is him pushing her away, showing her not even a tiny bit of affection (except for the sex that he uses her for) and trying to ignore the "mistake" that is the child he knocked her up with. This is after he was unable to force her to abort it. He continues to intend to dump her on an island with the "mistake" once it's born!The end of the book is him informing her that he actually loves her and then basically taking ownership over his precious little daughter. No one else is good enough to hold her or care for her other then him. To the point where the mom wasn't even allowed any say so on nursery decor!His treatment of her was so shockingly bad that I could hardly stand reading it. It was made worse by her acceptance of it. She had sex with this man minutes after he called her a whore! It was pathetic. I kept reading, waiting for her to set him straight and she never did.RL Mathewson writes some very nice, very steamy sex scenes but I literally couldn't even read them. I despised these characters so much I couldn't have cared less what happened to either one of them!My biggest complaint was Chris and "Munchkins" acceptance of his behavior but it's also worth saying that the typos in this book were pretty extreme. Maybe they bothered me more then usual because I was already so irritated.I have the next book in the series ready for me to read but frankly, I'm dreading it. If the characters are like they were in Without Regret I won't finish it. I wont waste my time on another infuriating book.