He is a brutish man, and his behavior towards Elizabeth borders on harassment, and there are even times that I would say the sex they partake in is almost rape, which instantly turned me away from this novel. However, the characters in this novel irked me considerably, and I could not bring myself to like this novel.įirst, lets begin with Marcus. I normally love Sylvia Day, and I have never encountered a novel of hers that I did not immediately love. Not quite decent erotica, they do rise slightly above the normal bodice ripper herd, so at least there's a minimum of the usual cheesy euphemisms.Īll in all, if you're looking for a coherent plot and/or steamy erotica, save your dollars and look elsewhere. The only reason I gave this two stars instead of one was for the frequent sex scenes. In addition, the secondary characters are mostly weak and annoying, such as a meddlesome brother who deserves a poke in the eye, former mistresses who.what? I could go on, but I've lost interest.
The plot is a joke-some business with a journal that gets old quickly, a stolen brooch, a stolen (and unkindly returned) knife, a long-dead mother whose memory nonetheless affects everything, a Robin Hood pirate, some sort of wager that's not explained, blah blah blah. One moment she's calmly firing a weapon at an attacker, the next throwing a hissy fit over some perceived slight, the next acting like an ice queen, the next running away from some Big Misunderstanding like a middle schooler.Īs for Marcus, he is a typically gorgeous, arrogant hero who is verbally neutered by Elizabeth at nearly every turn and reduced to near violence, yet we're not supposed to love him any less. Rather than simply draw her as a complex person, the author can't seem to decide what Elizabeth is. I really wanted to like Elizabeth but she unerringly manages to fall into that too-stupid-to-live territory that I detest in heroines. It starts off fairly promising, and we think "Oho, a challenge for our gorgeous hero," but unfortunately the chase lasts about 4 seconds and then it's all downhill from there. After struggling to finish this book (and admittedly skimming through the last 100 pages or so), all I can say is, "What?!" This book is all over the place.
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