Review: Worth the price
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 28, 2013
My biggest gripe with these books was that there were numerous formatting issues. In one of the books, every time a "th" started a word other than the word "the" it was printed as a "m" so that I had to read some sentences multiple times before I caught on. There were similar formatting issues with the other books.Now as to the writing itself....well, Jennifer Blake loves to put her characters in impossible situations. Two of the books centered on husbands who had other men seduce their wives, one on a heroine who goes to kill the hero and ends up being raped by him, and the first book, actually my least favorite, had the hero deliberately try to compromise the heroine so that he could marry her, thus regaining the family plantation his father had lost in a card game, and punishing her father by making her a miserable wife. He fails on all counts, and even when the heroine finds out what he's doing, she reacts with an amazing lack of emotion. Because, of course, she's already in love with thim. The rape book was actually a little better. You know how it goes--he was drunk, she was in his room waiting to kill him, but she was cold, so she got in his bed and fell asleep, he mistook her struggles for worry that she wouldn't get paid.... Happens all the time. There was some historical background in this book that was pretty interesting, and really, it's not like this is the first book that uses the old "I've ruined you, so now I must marry you" plot gimmick. You do get 4 full-sized books for the price, and they are well-written enough to keep your interest. If you just love to read and read as voraciously as I do, then these are worth it.