Helpful Score: 3
The books in the Blackthorn Brothers trilogy could have been written by three different authors. Book #1 The Taming of the Rake was wonderful, made it to my Top Ten of All Time list. Book #2 a Midsummer's Night Sin was meh - okay. THIS Book #3 Much Ado About Rogues was really painful to finish, a chore to get through. It's title should have been "Much Ado About Nothing" or even better, "Death By Yakking." This hero and heroine never stopped talking. Every thought they have is spoken, every emotion is dissected and analyzed in dialogue. Tons of back story, retold over and over. The hero is dense. When the heroine makes a subtle suggestion, I can almost see the wheels slowly start to churn in the hero's thick noggin, then smack his own forehead and exclaim, 'Why didn't I think of that?" Duh. Yak-yak-yak, non-stop. Save yourselves.
Michelle D. (Michelle74) reviewed Much Ado About Rogues (Blackthorn Brothers, Bk 3) on + 153 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
3rd in series - only one of which I had previously read.
I wanted to like this book - I really did, but unfortunately, I just couldn't.
The story line is choppy. The characters are probably the highlight of the story, but not compelling enough to stop me from putting the book down several times.
I did love the part where the three women (2 sisters-in-law from prior books) are together. It felt very real and quite funny.
But overall, I kept hoping the story would end, and when it finally did, it felt very anticlimatic. It was almost as if I was reading different mini-stories. None of which kept my attention.
Not a recommended read by me.
I wanted to like this book - I really did, but unfortunately, I just couldn't.
The story line is choppy. The characters are probably the highlight of the story, but not compelling enough to stop me from putting the book down several times.
I did love the part where the three women (2 sisters-in-law from prior books) are together. It felt very real and quite funny.
But overall, I kept hoping the story would end, and when it finally did, it felt very anticlimatic. It was almost as if I was reading different mini-stories. None of which kept my attention.
Not a recommended read by me.
