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Title: A nice doorstop and little else
Review: God, this was bad. It was pretentious, serious, and dull. The author likes one-sentence paragraphs, and her characters are melodramtic and serious and tedious. She has a really annoying habit of italicizing significant things, but she does it every twentieth sentence or so, so you keep getting pulled up short by something that isn't really that dramatic getting the dramatic treatment. The characters are superficially different but that's only on the surface: the guy is still a stud----so much so that the author feels compelled to, um, confide the dimensions of his endowment, and I'm not talking about his trust fund---while the heroine is just blah. After a few chapters, the seriousness and the pretense just got to me, but I should have given up, frankly, when the writer breathlessly confided that bit about the guy's, er, moneymaker, I guess you could call it, and did it in italics. It was painful.
