Jacob Proffitt's Reviews > Tremaine's True Love

I'm a little over halfway and I just don't want to continue. That may be a mood thing, but I'm not sure, so I don't think I'll give it a rating. The thing is, the book is well-enough written and I like the main couple. They fit well together and I like them and I want them to be together. But I've had enough.

Reasons contributing to the dnf:
* This is the biggest reason. The viewpoint hopping is awful. Besides Nita we have three of her sisters, her brother, her neighbor, her neighbor's dependent, her bisexual-but-mostly-gay brother, and, of course, Tremaine. Particularly jarring was the neighbor who is a petty tyrant and active jackwagon who likes lording it over his dependents and wields one dependent's child like a weapon against her.
* I hate when the first book in a series includes couples from previous books. In this case, Nita's brother is obviously living a happily-ever-after from Nicholas: Lord of Secrets (a handy review from someone else helped identify this for me).
* The characters have very modern ideas about relationships, the poor, single motherhood, disease, marriage, domestic affairs, sex, and education. A good author can support several of these with enough care. Maybe. But all of them? Burrowes isn't that good. I doubt anybody is.
* They're obviously in love, ready to marry, and having sex and it's just past the middle of the novel. I hate to speculate where the conflict for the rest of the story is going to come from, but I like none of the possibilities as they stand now (most likely the jackball neighbor and his domestic tyranny and, oh yeah, the stupid sheep).

Okay, seeing that all in a list changed my mind. Definitely a one-star story. As I say, Burrowes is good. The characters work as a couple and I care about them. But all that extra cruft around the story just breaks my engagement to pieces. I had thought that I might return at some future date. This review should see that I avoid that mistake.