Review: This story needs a different title....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2011
***SPOILERS***The h is the fat girl of her class and is still bitter about never being asked out by the H.  She returns to town thinner and ready to rub it in the H face.  That lasted about a chapter, maybe 2.  I have really enjoyed the this author's previous work and was looking forward to a what I thought would be a story about a reluctant h and a remorseful H that had to woo the h back in love with him.  Since this never happened, I am not sure why the book had this title.  Other than the H carrying a box for the h and giving her a kitten, there really was no wooing at all.  They have sex and then he reacts like a total jerk after they are done but instead of apologizing he gives her a lame line of "what I did was unforgivable so I am not going to ask you to forgive me."  This was after he has locked her in a jail cell for her to listen to him (his the sheriff).  I guess even after what she did I thought that how he acted he needed to get on his knees to beg for forgiveness and really showing remorse instead of acting high handed but he continually doubts and compares the h to the actions of his ex-wife.  When the h intervenes between his daughter and him, the H immediate response is "you told her," referring to a secret that the H had shared with the h regarding the daughter.  She let's that go and then later in the book he also questions her honesty regarding a major event which to me was just the last straw.  He is just one of those characters that because he had been burned once before and therefore will forever continue to think the worse of all women, the h included.  He never once believed the best of the h nor did he really have to ever work for the h love.  Instead the H continually took her for granted.  The h is just disappointing because throughout the book she stand up to the H just long enough to give lip service just before she lays down to be his doormat.  The end was just so unbelievably annoying that I didn't even read the last two pages.  Yes, I had two pages to go and I just could not do it.  H shows up after continually treating the h like crap and hurting her and in one paragraph all is fine and well, until the next time that life doesn't go his way and then somehow that will be the h fault again and I'm sure she will agree with that as well.  The only time he steps up is when someone else wanted her or if it was easy and convenient to him, this to me this a romance does not make.  This book was just a huge disappointment especially from such a talented author.