Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I was excited to finally have this 'new' book auto-delivered to my Kindle, and I started reading it almost as soon as it arrived (I was just so glad to be over the Boonesboro trilogy!). But as I read, I kept thinking that something must have happened to NR. The writing was so, well, bad! The characters are poorly developed, the story starts with very little background, sections bounce back and forth from one character's POV to the other's, descriptive words are repeated frequently (sometimes within two or three sentences). There were just so many basic writing flaws that the story wasn't flowing at all for me. I tried to stick with it, thinking that it just HAD to improve. With the amount of gratuitous sex between the heroine and hero, coupled with the way the heroine swooped in and immediately found her way into the heart of the hero's orphaned niece, I thought that I was reading some weird experimental mash-up of Fifty Shades of Grey and The Sound of Music. Maybe NR was trying out some bizarre literary style? And then I got to the chapter where the H&H go to New York. And she goes shopping at Gimbels. WHAT??? That store has been closed for decades! I quickly went to the title page and, lo and behold.... this book is 30 years old! Or nearly that anyway. And very dated. Written when Ms. Roberts was just learning the ropes, long before she'd hit her stride as the (usually) wonderful story-teller that she's become. So.... fair warning. This book is NOT NEW. Some may like it, but I didn't. And I'm very sorry that I didn't know that it was a reprint before I spent the money for it. Buyer beware.