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Title: Didn't hold my interest
Review: I don't think this book was awful but it was not good either. There wasn't much of a story to hold my interest: A mousy widow hooks up with a returned scoundrel for one season for an affair. I expected to enjoy stimulating backs-and-forths between the two main characters and was disappointed to find them totally unmatched. The widow never really evolved from mousy to an interesting rounded person and the scoundrel never became the kind of alpha male romance hero that you would root for and sigh over. His smacking her bottom scene didn't excite me in the least, I am not much for physical abuse even if it supposed to be "sexy." There is a time and place for this kind of thing but I don't think a mainstream historical romance novel is. I kept reading on hoping the book would go somewhere story-wise but it didn't.
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