It was a lose-lose relationship.Ĭaroline is a 17-year-old daughter of an impoverished viscount who needs to marry well to look after her and her younger brother. The heroine manipulates the hero in the first half of the book and the hero becomes bitter and acts as an asshole towards her in the second half. Between the two of them, I don't know which one is worse. I'll put aside the pacing and writing issues and just focus on the one thing that bothered me the most while reading the book: the entire relationship between the hero and the heroine. The same thing happened in The Young Blood as well, but the main characters were charming enough that I could overlook the bad pacing and other problems with the plot. Like I said, too many things happening at once. A scheming heroine and the hero who sees through it all but still somehow ends up being manipulated? Conflict between hero and his best friend over the said disappearance The disappearance of hero's younger sister Controlling, abusive villain of a father Infidelity and incest between secondary characters Conflicts are resolved way too quickly or not dealt with at all. Major plot points are introduced, not explored and discarded without giving them any depth and as a result, most of the novel felt very flimsy and rushed. The problem I have with Erin Satie's writing is that there's way too much stuff going on in her books.
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