This book should have been better. There is absolutely no reason it should have been boring. Sophie Jordan writes great Historicals, the plot sounds fantastic-He believes he’s cursed, she couldn’t get out of an engagement with an abusive pig, so she faked a pregnancy that isn’t her fiance’s, and they get together. Why isn’t this better?
By the halfway mark, not much is happening. I’m mad at her brother for allowing all this to happen on her first day there. She hasn’t even been there a few hours and he’s like “Oh you can stay forever, we love you, but by the way, MacLarin offered to marry you and I think you should do it.”
About halfway through it picks up, but then Hunt is awful to Clara. Truly awful. And then months pass and no apology, no explanation, no conversation, nothing. But they’re sleeping together. I felt like we were missing a few chapters. It was like…wait, they’re okay now? What’s going on? I actually flipped back to make sure I hadn’t accidentally skipped something.
The “curse” was real which kind of irritated me. I didn’t want Hunt to be right. I think it was meant to be funny, but it really just comes off as frustrating. Also his Nana was terrible. Clara was just treated awfully by everyone. Did no one else care that the laird got married and his wife was pregnant? Anyone? At least anyone who wasn’t irrationally angry at Clara?
This book didn’t work for me. If you’ve read it, let me know down in the comments if you had the same issues I did, or the opposite!
***ARC courtesy of the publisher via edelweiss
