Review: If you like weak female characters...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2014
Then this is the book series for you. This box set is the story of 3 brothers and their male cousin and the women they "love." All the women are weak and whiny and without one ounce of self-respect. Even Diane who is a lawyer lets her husband, Jed, run roughshod over her. And she even let's him question her commitment to him right after she gives him her virginity! Come on! The women have no backbone! Every time the reader thinks one of the women will stand up for herself, the author has the male of the moment do or say some macho crap THAT the women does not disagree with! Again, come on! Oh, and the author has a real thing against pregnant women, using every negative, stereotype, old wives tale about pregnant women to make them look even more useless and stupid. The women where constantly doing things to endanger their unborn children. And the men...wow! How could you find such a single-minded group of uncaring idiots.? Everything about them is me, me, me! They want the wives to stay home and take care of the kids. One guy, Andy, even objects to his very young wife, Laura, going to school to complete her high school degree. And Neil, the one brother who you think doesn't have his head up his butt leaves Candy, his almost wife (wedding literally stops at the alter) in the hospital right after she has a miscarriage because he wants kids, his own kids. Adopted kids aren't good enough.The women always take these guys back, no matter what, just amazes me. I don't want the women as friends or the men as lovers. What a poor comment about a romance series of stories. I want a story with conflict but I also want women who know what they want but are not willing to sacrifice their self-respect and sense of self-worth to achieve it. And I want strong men with strong convictions but who also try to understand the feelings of the women in their lives and help them meet and exceed their life goals. None of the characters in this series does that. What a shame that the author always teased the reader with that potential but never delivered.WARNING: some strong language and sexually explicit situations.