Her Bodyguard Book

Glacial pace. Slow, understated romance. Overdone Gary Stu sensibilities in the hero.

I can't say the writing was bad; from a technical standpoint it was okay. But what little plot there was revolved around a slow trek across the countryside (literally, that's all they were doing -- with each leg of the journey detailed in setting up tents, preparing food, checking the wounded, helping Gary Stu take off his jacket & mount a horse, yada yada BORING). Meanwhile we had extended conversations between Gary Stu & his fellow soldiers and/or the heroine -- painstaking, endless conversations that were meant to philosophize over the horrors of war & other issues of Napoleonic Russia.

If you like slow, talky-talk romance with Ultra-Perfect Gary Stu heroes & mousy wallflower heroines, you'd probably enjoy this one. Despite the Harlequin/Masquerade stamp, this is a very sedate book with a squeaky-clean love story -- nothing to fear here unless you're bothered by some descriptions of war wounds.

Swapped away, & welcome. Hopefully the next person will enjoy it more than I did.