Review: He doth protest too much
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2012
I love mail order bride type books. This is one of those in a unique way but it's enough to make you want to toss whatever device you're reading it on against the wall hoping it'll break and destroy the book you're reading.Jason Sinclair, a coffee exporter in Brazil wants a wife. Hiding from his demons deep in the jungle, he wants a wife he can control and mold to his whims. He writes to his cousin and business partner in New Orleans about procuring him a wife. But his cousin doesn't get the letters.Instead his cousin Derek's secretary Caroline Marshall does. She reads Jason's letters and falls for the lonely man writing them. With a knack for duplicating Derek's handwriting, Caroline starts writing back to Jason as Derek. Thus securing herself as his wife by proxy to help exorcise the demons of the man she's falling in love with through letters alone.Jason doesn't like her. She's too independent, too headstrong, too old at 25 and a widow aka not a mold-able, wide-eyed virgin.Jason is one of the worst heroes I've read in awhile. It's mindbogglingly annoying  how much he protests not liking Caroline. At 60% in the book he's still running cold except for Jason Jr under his britches. His attraction to her is purley physical and only because he hasn't had sex in so long.It's hella boring. The cover is misleading if smutty sex if your thing. They don't have sex until the VERY end of the book and it's not sexy at all. It's as if the author finally realized we grew tired of Jason's woe is me routine and they need to play Hide the Tab in the Slot.If it's free pass it on by and if there's a price, run away fast!