Well, it's Mary Balogh so it can't be bad, but I found this book kind of slow moving, and one of my least favorite of the Survivor's Club series. For anyone else, it would be a quite good book, for her, it was barely average. There are a lot of digressions involving various friends and family members, which provide some background but don't really move the plot forward. I did find the smuggling subplot interesting, and it gave the hero a chance to shine. And I could not guess what Imogen's secret trauma was about, so I totally did not see that coming.
Balogh did a good job with the difficult task of creating a love story where one of the people has had a previous happy marriage. Usually, authors do it by somehow denigrating the first spouse, or having something bad about him or her come to light. But Imogen's first husband started out as a hero and ended up even more so, when we find out how he met his end. So I have to praise the author for making the HEA between Imogen and Percy(the hero of this book) believable.
Balogh did a good job with the difficult task of creating a love story where one of the people has had a previous happy marriage. Usually, authors do it by somehow denigrating the first spouse, or having something bad about him or her come to light. But Imogen's first husband started out as a hero and ended up even more so, when we find out how he met his end. So I have to praise the author for making the HEA between Imogen and Percy(the hero of this book) believable.
