I sooooo wanted to like this more. I love a traumatized heroines, and the one fit the bill. There was some good angst, even if it did get a little over the top and illogical at times. But it was just too sugary sweet, and the heroine's dialog was too Mary Sueish for me. Cheesy, and not even terribly sweet - the hero is a pretty big jerk tbh. ( )

Better than the first one in this trilogy but still suffers from the Diana Palmerness of it all. Why do I read them then? Ugh. I guess because the blurbs/set ups always sound so good. And yes I generally love what her books are about I guess I just wish a better author was writing them. Here an older man falls for a 22 year old girl but rather cruelly turns her away for her own good. He's 16 years older than her and doesn't believe a long term relationship will work. Then she marries someone else who he finds out later abused her. So much potential for angst there but ultimately fairly poorly written. Someone else please take this idea and run with it. ( )

I sooooo wanted to like this more. I love a traumatized heroines, and the one fit the bill. There was some good angst, even if it did get a little over the top and illogical at times. But it was just too sugary sweet, and the heroine's dialog was too Mary Sueish for me. Cheesy, and not even terribly sweet - the hero is a pretty big jerk tbh. ( )