What Price Love?

This is now my 3rd Laurens, and now I'm sure I wouldn't buy them as opposed to picking them up as lending library fines. I do think she has skill at weaving romance and intrigue plots together, but this one ran long (over 450 pages), had some very very nicely paced sections with some much slower ones, a bit too much "I will badger you into marrying me" energy (I appreciated a slightly too late point from the hero's female friend about sacrifices he was also making), and sometimes the euphemistic language is just too much: "They gave themselves up and it took them. Lifted them high, filled them with glory, fractured and claimed them, then, like warmed husks tossed on the wind, left them to drift slowly back to earth, to the soft sheets of her bed, to the warmth of each other's arms." I just...it's not my jam.