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Really, really bad
If I ever write a bad romance, I promise I won't allow it to be advertized as something other than a romance novel. Why the trickery? There are plenty of people who gobble this junk up! I want my money and the hours of my life wasted on this trash back!
Trust me, you do not want to spend 10 minutes with any of the characters in this book, let alone the hours it will take to slog through it.
Our heroine is a brainiac tenured professor studying at Oxford, a serious athlete and a very independent woman who meets the great love of her life, a 1500 year old Vampire, who is, apparently, an autistic savant.
They meet and you spend the next several hundred pages watching their love grow as danger sort of looms, but not really. Mostly you just read a lot about her exhaustion, sleepiness and hunger. She eats a LOT. But not as much as she sleeps. And she doesn't just sleep - she gets tucked in the way a baby might. "Scooped" up by her lover and tucked in - and when she awakes, you guessed it - food! Not food you'd expect to read about, either. Eggs, toast (more toast in a day than I'd eat in a 5 year span), vegetable soup and tea. Buckets of tea. Our little genius reads every person and situation she encounters wrong - to disastrous effect. For all her studies and experience, she doesn't appear to have actually met any people in her life. Ugh - and if she did they'd loathe her.
Endless talk of their great love, honesty and total acceptance of each other and the importance of family.
Then they forget all that, lie to each other, invade each other's privacy, refuse to accept anything at all about each other and prove over and over again that they hate and mistrust their families.
February 2011 · Books · verified purchase