The Heart Principle

I like romance full of shlock, but I'm not (in theory) opposed to challenging the leads with non-romantic IRL issues. It's just this one dug so deep in that direction that it made me wonder why it needed to have any romance at all. Quite frankly, I'm kind of wondering if it's worse off for having that as a focal point since it just distracts from the other elements at play. The book's resolution also really rubbed me the wrong way.