Helpful Score: 2
This was the first book that I have read by this author. I liked it, but felt that the author could have expanded on the story to make it better. The heroine of the story was supposed to feel betrayed by her one true love when he left to fight for the confederate army during the civil war. However the story begins when the hero returns to her, so the reader does not feel the sense of betrayal the character intimates since we miss that crucial part of their turbulent and passionate beginnings that would have set it up to be more believable.
The heroine goes from being a beloved young lady, to being left by her love, her parents dying, and her brothers going off to the war, then also being killed. In addition, the reader is only told these things in brief summary, instead of the author showing the hardships, grief and despair that she supposedly endured during his 4 year absence. You don't get to see the two main characters falling in love (& passion). By doing this I felt the reader was robbed of a more complex and compelling story that is based on his "betrayal". Yet I just didn't feel the "betrayal" was written as strongly as the author would have liked you to believe was there. I felt that she could have done this in just a few chapters, while not compromising the erotic romance genre which would have made it a richer and more emotionally satisfying read.
Overall I did like it, but just wished it had more background that I felt this promising idea would have made it a richer & better story. I gave it 3 stars.
The heroine goes from being a beloved young lady, to being left by her love, her parents dying, and her brothers going off to the war, then also being killed. In addition, the reader is only told these things in brief summary, instead of the author showing the hardships, grief and despair that she supposedly endured during his 4 year absence. You don't get to see the two main characters falling in love (& passion). By doing this I felt the reader was robbed of a more complex and compelling story that is based on his "betrayal". Yet I just didn't feel the "betrayal" was written as strongly as the author would have liked you to believe was there. I felt that she could have done this in just a few chapters, while not compromising the erotic romance genre which would have made it a richer and more emotionally satisfying read.
Overall I did like it, but just wished it had more background that I felt this promising idea would have made it a richer & better story. I gave it 3 stars.
