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Make Me Yours (Harlequin Blaze, #479) (2009)

by Betina Krahn(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0373794835 (ISBN13: 9780373794836)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin

review 1: I think my reaction to this book has to do with my being saturated in romance novels for a good year and a half, and finally getting kind of tired of them. But this shouldn't be taken as a reflection of THIS particular novel.This novel is actually well-written, and the story is interesting and unique.HOWEVER, after really gorging on romances this last year, I think I finally hit a wall. I'm finally sick of romances. At least temporarily. I've been reading Megan Hart lately, and she has such a realistic tone to her novels. Her characters usually react in a logical manner...I think it has soured me on the standard romance genre.I immediately started feeling that....ugh, not THIS... feeling when I realized that the heroine was being FORCED into a situation that was not o... moref her making, not her fault at all. The heroine, a widowed owner of a country inn, captured the notice of the Prince, who decided he had to have her as his personal mistress. But only after she married, because he didn't want any bastard children running around. So, the heroine then had to find a husband, who "oh yeah" wouldn't mind handing his wife over to the prince's uses for a few years until he got sick of her.YUCK! The hero participated in this madness by being instrumental in helping her to find a husband. Of course, the storyline plays out differently, h/h fall in love, la la, everyone is happy. But the SITUATION is what soured me. More often than not these romances feature a situation that just sours my stomach.
review 2: Hmmm...This was a nice respite from the otherwise generic HR template with a feisty, head-strong, determined heroine and a little meeker hero, providing quite a breather.But such characterization is also the biggest problem in this book, at least for me. The heroine was a bit too feisty, IMO, almost flirting with brazenness and a tad of slutty-ness, while the hero's (somewhat) lovable trait of shyness was a bit overdone for me.I guess I'm not used to such characters in historical romances. They provided a nice twist, but came off as slightly over the top.I liked the quick and easy resolution to the "big problem", but still it was a tad too easy.A good story nevertheless. less

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