The Love Charm

I couldnt decide wether to give this one star or two,so settling for the middle ground of 1.5

I found the setting unusual and this is the first time I learnt about the descendants of the Acadians

A very interesting cultural heritage to say the least :)

Now onto the story

Aida Gaudet is considered in her small community of Prarie Acadie to be the most beautiful woman (but also the most forgetful and unpractical one)She is engaged for some time to the heros best friend.

The hero is Armand Sonnier he has been in love with Aida for several years but feeling its hopeless as he doesnt consider himself worthy of her on account of being of slight height,he has cultivated a pretense of being distantly polite to her.

Aida takes this to mean that he show more hates her.

Things starts to change when Armands married brother shows signs of being attracted to Aida and she to him (or at least Armand imagines it so)

So to save his brothers marriage he sets out to try and discourage her of having feelings for his brother.Though I cant understand how any woman could be attracted to the brother considering his disgusting and unfeeling to his wife.

She cant help but be surprised but happy about Armands sudden interest in her.

Things go from there.

The hero was very interesting being very short (I mean how often is the hero allowed to be short in historical romances) and slight of build,he was also clever yet had a vulnerable streak.So I felt the heroine wasnt a good match or even worthy of him.

The heroine was TSTL though.She acted like she had a vacuum where her brain should be.Harping on about being "the most beautiful" and wanting to marry her fiancee because he was beautiful too.All the while knowing that the fiancee were happily involved with another woman,she was sure she could make him love her.

If your fiancee keeps putting off your wedding for two years,thats a pretty solid clue that a) He doesnt want to marry you,and b) that you are seriously deluded to believe you can make him love you by being understanding about his relationship with another woman

and the sex scenes...werent sexy.

I mean the hero is very very short...but the way the author described the heroine during those scenes was reminiscent of some cow-like giantess.

Then there is the sub-plot with the fiancee and his relationship with the woman he loved.I felt it was a more powerful plot than the hero and heroines story.

Sorry just wasnt for me. show less