Jo V. (jovan) reviewed on 8/25/2009 + 301 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

Once again I have mixed emotions about this author's book. There's a lot that's good here, but sometimes one false note is all it takes to take away the shine. That false note comes when the heroine comes clean about the boyfriend she made up to stop her family from pitying her when her ex-fiance gets engaged to her sister and the hero's reaction is that she's a liar and he coldly walks away. Up until that moment, I though Callahan was a great leading man. I'd have even allowed him that judgmental moment (as out of character as it was) if it had only lasted through the fight, but when he held onto it, it was like the author had suddenly replaced the hero with someone completely different and I lost respect. For him. Or maybe for the author. In the end, it doesn't matter. I'm happy when an author manipulates me skillfully, but when the characters start acting out of character so the author can make a difficult plot point work--when I can see the strings on the marionette, as I could here--it's not a good time.

Guess I'm done with this author.

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