Julie Garwood Box Set

Where do I even begin? This review is for the first book ‘Gentle Warrior'. A misnomer if I've ever heard one, the dude is as gentle as a thorn in the bottom of your foot.

So let's start here: Geoffrey is an ass, and grandpa is an expositional tool to tell the main characters how the other feels because they both have the emotional understanding of a gnat.
Little brother Thomas has memory lost for the first half, then PTSD for one literal paragraph when he remembers that he saw his family murdered, and is suddenly fine for the rest of the book. The main battle (the one against the brother-in-law who arranged to have her family killed, yeah, that guy) was completely skipped. Yup, just skip right over what could've been an interesting battle, nothing to see here.

There was no danger, no moment for Baron Geoffrey asshat Berkley to realize he's made a mistake in being such an unbearable twit.
Instead he sits by a lake, realizes he loves Elizabeth, but then still decides to let her wallow in sadness, thinking that her husband will never love her, to make sure she “learns a lesson” after saving his friend Roger (from not just enemy soldiers but drowning too).

On top of it all the other bad guy, uncle mustache twirler, doesn't really have any comeuppance. Sure, he doesn't get control of the castle and guardianship of Thomas, whoop-de-doo, not enough of a punishment to be satisfying in this book.

The moral of the story seems to be: obey your husband, and maybe he won't lock you in a room with no food or water... Again.