Bluebird Winter (Sarah, #3)

by Linda Howard

[booksandcats]

When I found out there is a book about Derek (a secondary character from the first book in this short series), I was soo excited. Then I read the novella and I was very very VERY didsappointed!

This seris always has had the problem that the MMC are very problematic, asshole-type kind of character, but I really hoped Derek wouldn't be. And to be fair, he isn't really, but still kinda...?

We meet the FMC who was abused, mentally and physically for a long time, whilst she is giving birth in her car. Luckily she meets Derek, who is a doctor, specifically for premie babies, so yay universe! He delivers the baby, sees how much Kathleen loves her, decides he wants that for himself as well and just... decides to marry her! That is almost literally how that internal monologue worked. Then, he pusher her to all her decisions, even though she tells him she was abused and wasn't able to make her own decisions her whole life, doesn't open up about his own feelings, just arranges everything to be like he wants it to be and gets impatient when she doesn't reciprocate his feelings in the way he wants immediately. Like what the hell?? You build a teenager into a practically perfect man and then you do his story like this?

No. Just NO.