nitzan_schwarz
Written on Aug 25, 2017
I didn't really like it??
Honestly, I'm super surprised the same woman who wrote [bc:The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie|11470394|The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie (Mackenzies & McBrides, #1)|Jennifer Ashley|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1335894658s/11470394.jpg|6155268] and the Highland Pleasures series wrote this novel. This one just felt so chessy and kind of pandering? Like, I rolled my eyes a lot at all the love declarations and the likes, and I felt like there wasn't much substance to the whole story?
Also, if you're going to write Andrea having some backstory that deals with harassment and stalking, maybe show me its effects and things that happen rather than keep telling me "what Jarad the bastard did to her"? because I honestly have no idea what happened in her last shiftertown, aside from the fact she refused a guy and he harassed her, but everyone treats it with such vehemence that it feels really weird that the novel never explains or utilizes it.
It's almost as if... Ashley needed someone to die for Sean to survive in the final stretch of the novel, but she didn't want to sacrifice any character she likes, so she made up a harasser that decides to follow all the way from Andrea's past so that he not only die, but kind of be redeemed slightly as he does. Like, that's the entire purpose of Andrea's backstory
In general, this book lacked the age-old adherence of "show, not tell" lol