Sweet Treason

Rating:
Summary: One of Gaffney's weakest and it started out so well...
Review: I am a huge Patricia Gaffney fan and I must concur with other reviewers here who give this book a tepid review. This book starts out just swell - energetic and fun and sassy...and this it all just...goes away.

Disappointing and not up to her usual good work.

Rating:
Summary: One of Gaffney's weakest and it started out so well...
Review: I am a huge Patricia Gaffney fan and I must concur with other reviewers here who give this book a tepid review. This book starts out just swell - energetic and fun and sassy...and this it all just...goes away.

Disappointing and not up to her usual good work.

Rating:
Summary: It could have been so good....
Review: This book started out great, the first half does a good job of setting up the story. The interaction between the two main characters is funny and romantic, and then it takes a turn for the terrible. At every opportunity for the characters to grow and develop along with a premise that could have been very interesting, the author plunges the characters into more hateful acts. Instead of exploring a developing relationship between two people at cross purposes, this becomes a story of a sick psychotic love obsession.

In a romance novel the lovers have to be someone worth winning, not someone that you are sorry they got stuck with. In true Jane Eyre style, by the end of the book you can't stand the selfish, stuck-up, "heroine" who knows whats right but can't do it, and you feel so disgustingly sorry for and disappointed in the ruined "hero" that you put the book down feeling sick. Worse, you feel as though you wasted your time.

Rating:
Summary: It could have been so good....
Review: This book started out great, the first half does a good job of setting up the story. The interaction between the two main characters is funny and romantic, and then it takes a turn for the terrible. At every opportunity for the characters to grow and develop along with a premise that could have been very interesting, the author plunges the characters into more hateful acts. Instead of exploring a developing relationship between two people at cross purposes, this becomes a story of a sick psychotic love obsession.

In a romance novel the lovers have to be someone worth winning, not someone that you are sorry they got stuck with. In true Jane Eyre style, by the end of the book you can't stand the selfish, stuck-up, "heroine" who knows whats right but can't do it, and you feel so disgustingly sorry for and disappointed in the ruined "hero" that you put the book down feeling sick. Worse, you feel as though you wasted your time.

Rating:
Summary: For the genre, it's not bad
Review: this book wasn't horrible - the first part was actually pretty entertaining, but it got a bit tedious after a while. She lies, he discovers, she lies, he discovers...if you really want a great romantic adventure with a fabulous Scotsman and a great, strong English woman, read Diana Gabaldon's OUTLANDER