Amanda S. reviewed on 7/16/2011 + 28 more book reviews

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This book had tremendous potential and I was looking forward to reading it. The premise was interesting and the opening few chapters demonstrated the author's writing ability was better than average.

But as a romance, as erotica, and as standard regular fiction this book was a total train wreck.

This isn't the first of the writer's writing I've read but this is far and away the worst.

Sexual tension, sex, and romance between Gabriel and Quilla were almost totally absent for the vast majority of the book. The author made a few obligatory asides that indicated a little attraction but that was the extent of it until the last fifth of the book.

And worse, both of them played martyrs for the entire frickin novel. Poor wittle Gabriel treated so badly by his mean wife (who is a murderer and an attempted murderer both) lets her walk all over him and degrade him and Quilla both. To top it all off, when the heroine wasn't being treated with indifference or cruelty, the book was boring and meandering.

I spent the second half of the book desperately praying the hero's brother, Jericho, would elope with Quilla and they would live happily ever after. I felt total sympathy for Quilla when she felt desire for what Jericho could offer because Gabriel consistently failed to demonstrate lust, affection, love, respect, courtesy, kindness, or consideration. And - the aggravating cherry on the sundae of failure - he ended the book by treating Quilla in a way he'd never once treated his cheating, depraved wife.

This book was a total disappointment and I can't in good conscience recommend it to anyone, as much as I'd like to get it out of my house.

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