( 3 reviews )
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Posted: Feb 22 2009
Adrienne Basso, was fast becoming my favorite author until this book. It was riddled with a plot that was so predictable and worse of all bad. She took two women who were abused by their father and turn them into women to be hated. She showed no compassion towards her characters and their pain. This book has not even been donated to goodwill but has been thrown away where it belongs in the garbage
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( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 19 2006
In this story, Claire our heroine meets a man who is visiting her county and develops a great friendship with him, he sees that she is in danger because the town squire as set his eyes on her and is determined to have her by all cost, so Jay offers Claire the protection of his name.After they marry He tells her he is going on a journey but warns her never to visit his home without letting him know first. Due to some unseen circumstances, she is forced to go to "Jay's" manor but what to her horror she finds that the man that looks so much like her Jay doesn't seem to be Jay and is vehemently denying ever being married to her. It turns out that she did marry Jay,(the mischievous twin) but "J" signed his identical twin brother's name Jasper on the marriage certificate. Jasper cannot turn this woman away, but he is already bethroted to be married to someone else. He is determined to see if this union his brother made on his behalf is legal in the meantime what his is to do with his "wife" The plot is simple enough, but in a tragic twist the other woman who Jasper was engaged to got caught up with the evil Village Squire..... All in all it was a very enjoyable read, some parts were a little to dark for my taste but fortunately it doesn't take too much away from the love story to ruin it.
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( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 10 2006
To avoid the advances of a villainous local squire, Miss Claire Barrington enters into a marriage of convenience. The groom, however, signs his twin brother Jasper's name to the marriage documents. As Claire and Jasper sort out the legalities of their situation and their feelings for one another, the evil squire and other malicious characters plot against them. There is a rape scene in this book. And the rapist doesn't die a horrible, excruciating death at the end. I think the author needs to rewrite that. Or maybe editors will keep rape scenes out of style and leave them out of romances all together, please.
