Keeper of the Heart Book

I thought Warrior's Woman was okay when I first read it, but it was one of the first romance novels I ever read. Recently I learned that it was just the first in a trilogy, so I picked up Keeper of the Heart which is the second in the series. It was better written than Warrior's Woman, but I had a lot more trouble getting into it. The story centers around Shanelle, the daughter of Tevra and Challen from the first book. She dislikes and fears the warriors of her homeworld and wants to get away before her father gives her away to a suitor. After spending a long period of time training to be a pilot on her mother's much more civilized homeworld, she returns only to almost immediately fall for a good-looking visiting warrior.

So far so good. I don't mind stupid plots like this, so long as they're fun to read. However, Lindsay takes the whole male-dominance thing too far for my taste, and Shanelle is the ultimate woman-who-says-no-when-she-means-YES. I find it inconceivable that any female would be willing to return to her homeworld, as it was described; everyone knows that for her own good, she needs to be deceived, cajoled and ultimately forced into joining with a big strong warrior. The only thing that could have redeemed this book for me would have been Shanelle hanging herself and proving all those *#&@(* wrong.