Author – Jude Deveraux
ISBN-13: 9780671739782
Boy was she right!
With a Cinderella/rags-to-riches story line, I started off the book with only happy thoughts. I was charmed by the heroine's ability to pull herself above her station after being dragged pregnant across a chapel floor only to be judged (wantingly) by her social and economic superiors. Our hero does not wish to be married to Leah for he is in love with a prettier, needier woman than our heroine. But, of course, he marries her and summarily leaves town for a year. When he returns Leah is now beautifully turned out and has warmed her way into his family's heart - no thanks to him. And, so they set off for his farmhouse in Kentucky to make a home. Somehow his former fiancé (who he still fancies himself in love with) tags along with them on their journey. Trials and tribulations, which would put out any frontier woman (besides our heroine, of course), ensue. Leah proves herself cunning and worthy while the other woman proves herself useless. Soon our hero begins to see the folly of not loving Leah.
All is well....
Great.
Wonderful.
Entertaining read.
Loved it...
Oh wait....I still have to finish the last 1/3 of the book! I judiciously trudge onward (Swampy's caveat echoing in my thoughts), but it's too late. I am lost in a mess of incoherent plot within pages of our author bringing the two leads together. The plot unfolds to include a bad guy, a nefarious older brother, two really big guys who don't talk, but who are really smart, and who later go off to have a threesome with each other (at least that is what I construed...ick). And then even later in the book the plot is made even more incoherent by the addition of another evil person who goes about besmirching our heroine's good name. This development is masterminded by some guy menacingly named "the Dancer" (what a stupid name for an evil dude if I ever read one) for reasons I still have yet to determine.
Of course, all's well that ends well with the ladies needing to be rescued because they were apparently too senseless not to put themselves in a situation where they might be killed. In the end, it is determined that our heroine really does need saving after all.
Long of the short: Should you read this book you really should stop right after our hero announces he is going to stay married our heroine (I enjoyed it up to this point). After that just put the book down. The final 1/3 of the book fails to make much sense, is completely contrived and utterly ridiculous!
Happy Reading,
FindingAlpha
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