Mimi
I really wanted to like this book.
The first chapter hooked me right away. I completely forgot how much I loved Mason and Linnet. Seeing how much Mason continues to adore Linnet, their energetic and cute children and even Cuthbert really made me feel warm and fuzzy. I totally did not expect twin girls and a terror of a son.
Then the story cuts to the female lead, Fenella who has received news from her sister-in-law that her husband is going to divorce her. She then rides to Oswald, hoping that he'd help advocate on her behalf and prevent the divorce only for him to force her to marry him.
Strangely this story had all the tropes I typically love reading, a male lead who forces the female lead to marry him, a manipulative male lead who tricks the female lead, a male lead who becomes utterly obsessed with the female lead and goes completely mad when anyone hurts her or he can't find her. However, I kept wanting to put this book down.
I really had to force myself to keep reading this book because the plot felt so dry. I did like the first smut scene, the glimpses of Linnet and Mason's happily ever after and there were so sections of dialogue I liked or found funny. But most of the book bored me and I just couldn't keep reading from 73% and had to DNF.
The whole Oswald being the spymaster plot weirded me out and Fenella going on walks in the morning and socialising with court ladies didn't interest me.
It wasn't like Mason/Linnet's story that had me cackling at Linnet's innocence, blushing at Mason's unhinged jealousy and fanning myself at all the spice.
I really wanted to like this book.
The first chapter hooked me right away. I completely forgot how much I loved Mason and Linnet. Seeing how much Mason continues to adore Linnet, their energetic and cute children and even Cuthbert really made me feel warm and fuzzy. I totally did not expect twin girls and a terror of a son.
Then the story cuts to the female lead, Fenella who has received news from her sister-in-law that her husband is going to divorce her. She then rides to Oswald, hoping that he'd help advocate on her behalf and prevent the divorce only for him to force her to marry him.
Strangely this story had all the tropes I typically love reading, a male lead who forces the female lead to marry him, a manipulative male lead who tricks the female lead, a male lead who becomes utterly obsessed with the female lead and goes completely mad when anyone hurts her or he can't find her. However, I kept wanting to put this book down.
I really had to force myself to keep reading this book because the plot felt so dry. I did like the first smut scene, the glimpses of Linnet and Mason's happily ever after and there were so sections of dialogue I liked or found funny. But most of the book bored me and I just couldn't keep reading from 73% and had to DNF.
The whole Oswald being the spymaster plot weirded me out and Fenella going on walks in the morning and socialising with court ladies didn't interest me.
It wasn't like Mason/Linnet's story that had me cackling at Linnet's innocence, blushing at Mason's unhinged jealousy and fanning myself at all the spice.