Review: Not what I was expecting - Warning! Slightly Spoilerish
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
Ok, I have read books where the hero has some type of mental disorder and I have read books where the hero is into bondage and needs to be the dominant - but I have never read a book where the hero is both and if this is the example I have to go by - I hope I never read another one like it.I personally thought Nicholas was a jerk. I can sympathize with his disorder and I can even understand the need to dominate. But what I can't accept is his dismissive attitude to Gabriella.Nor can I believe that these two love each other. In the other stories Ms. McKinley gave the leads a history together. Which made the romance believable.  Not so with these two.Maybe if this had been a full length novel and the author had time to develop the characters and let us get to know them better, I might have enjoyed it more. But since it is a very short novella - that just didn't happen and I was left feeling underwhelmedThe first novella in the series ( A Duchess in the Dark) was IMHO by far the best of the three. If I had to make a recommendation, it would be skip this book and read the first one instead.