Laura E. (retro-redux) reviewed Her Officer and Gentleman (Just Ask Reeves, Bk 2) on + 219 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 6
While the first book in this 2 part series was only fair-I had already purchased this book and was determined to give it a chance. Wrong!
The author took what seemed to be a "bad guy on the verge of redemption" in book one, and drops him right back to bad as book two starts.
This author shows no continuity with her characters. The H/H both start the book as seemingly OK characters, but quickly turn vengeful and mean spirited.
I quit the book in disgust 100 pages in when the hero refers publicly to the other gentlemen interested in the heroine as "fleas" and the heroine thinks it's funny:(-all the while his horse is trying to bite the other mens horses, yet he tells THEM to control their horses? This would have been unacceptable in Regency England and the hero would have been the one to control his horse or leave.
The author seems to be going for "rakish" with the hero, but it just comes off as a bully and a boar. The "revenge" storyline is always a difficult one to execute and if tried the hero had better have more going for him than Christian. Another irritating point was the rehashing every other page at how really, really good looking the Hero and Heroine are. It seemed they were all style and no substance.
This author has both characters behaving completely inappropriately for the time period. While I can overlook historical inaccuracy to a point-when it's nearly every page then it's just poorly written and researched.
The storyline is just too trite and immature. Like the previous book it just seems as if the author/publisher rushed to get this book out based of the author's past popularity. Which is the quickest way to lose faithful readers who do not like to be sold such a poor bill of goods.
Even the title "Her Officer and Gentlemen" has nothing to do with the book as the hero was never in the military in the first place!
I wholeheartedly do NOT recommend this book.
The author took what seemed to be a "bad guy on the verge of redemption" in book one, and drops him right back to bad as book two starts.
This author shows no continuity with her characters. The H/H both start the book as seemingly OK characters, but quickly turn vengeful and mean spirited.
I quit the book in disgust 100 pages in when the hero refers publicly to the other gentlemen interested in the heroine as "fleas" and the heroine thinks it's funny:(-all the while his horse is trying to bite the other mens horses, yet he tells THEM to control their horses? This would have been unacceptable in Regency England and the hero would have been the one to control his horse or leave.
The author seems to be going for "rakish" with the hero, but it just comes off as a bully and a boar. The "revenge" storyline is always a difficult one to execute and if tried the hero had better have more going for him than Christian. Another irritating point was the rehashing every other page at how really, really good looking the Hero and Heroine are. It seemed they were all style and no substance.
This author has both characters behaving completely inappropriately for the time period. While I can overlook historical inaccuracy to a point-when it's nearly every page then it's just poorly written and researched.
The storyline is just too trite and immature. Like the previous book it just seems as if the author/publisher rushed to get this book out based of the author's past popularity. Which is the quickest way to lose faithful readers who do not like to be sold such a poor bill of goods.
Even the title "Her Officer and Gentlemen" has nothing to do with the book as the hero was never in the military in the first place!
I wholeheartedly do NOT recommend this book.
Bonnie B. (BonnieBee) reviewed Her Officer and Gentleman (Just Ask Reeves, Bk 2) on + 13 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first, but Reeves is still a hoot, and the mystery of the twins mother is finally solved.
Angie S. (bookobsessed) reviewed Her Officer and Gentleman (Just Ask Reeves, Bk 2) on + 17 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This book "feeds" the part of us that secrretly loved the "bad boy".
