Reviews for A Song in the Wilderness

The average rating for A Song in the Wilderness based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-04-04 00:00:00 James V Cusenza Ten years ago, stupid virgin, teenaged heroine, thinking she was in luuurve, threw herself at drunken hero who, far from returning her feelings, was in a drunken stupor pretty much 24/7 because he was grieving for his dead wife. He used her body one time as a stand in for his wife and then the next day, sent her on her way, telling her half-heartedly to contact him for money if she needed an abortion or child support payments. As if that callous treatment wasn't enough, heroine also overheard him and his girlfriend making fun of her and how he picked up strays wherever he went. The heroine thinks the OW is the sophisticated type of older woman who is fine with an open relationship and the hero is a raging philanderer. I am convinced this is true and what's more, they cruelly planned between themselves to make the heroine overhear them so she would get the message that she is not wanted. Needless to say, heroine leaves in a huff, has her Seekret Baybee, and even enters a short-lived marriage to a friend who was in love with her and willing to support her love-child. Her husband died five years before hero returns coincidentally into her life as a guest lecturer at the college she works in. The hero recognizes her and teases her lightly about their past. He has no idea about his Seekret Daughter of course. And though he flirts with the heroine, and dummy heroine propositions him after imbibing one glass too many, he firmly rejects her. He forgot about her for ten years, manwhored his way round the globe, and is still currently in the throes of a long-term affair with that same OW that he was with when he had the ONS with the heroine ten years prior. OW is now married to hero's friend, which hasn't impeded their affair one bit. It soon becomes clear, from the OW's unsubtle warnings to an objective third party's remarks to the behavior of the hero himself that the affair was on the brink of culminating in a scandalous divorce. Thankfully the hero finds out about his Seekret Daughter, now aged nine, horse mad, and too cute to live, in the nick of time and uses that as a pretext to dump the overly clingy OW. I think he used a marriage of convenience to the heroine and playing dad to his daughter because it was a perfect excuse to avoid the Big Escandalo and not piss off his cuckolded "friend" who also happens to be his lucrative book publisher. He and the stupid heroine even blithely joked that their engagement would prevent him from being named as co respondent in OW's divorce and convince the "friend" that the OW and the H were not having an affair. How romantic!!!! No way do I buy he wasn't involved with the friend's wife nor his love declaration to the spineless ninny, utterly forgettable heroine. He simply wants a marriage of convenience now that he is interested in playing dad. He had the nerve to accuse the heroine of "stealing" his daughter for ten years, you know the same daughter he would have been happy to fund the abortion for or alternatively sent some checks in the mail as long as he wasn't bothered with daddy duties. What?????? But honestly the blobfish, spineless heroine got no sympathy from me. Ten years on, she is no wiser and still pursued this guy humiliatingly. She had no pride! The hero didn't want anything she offered until he found out about the daughter and decided he would have to seduce the blowfish in order to get unfettered access to his daughter as well as cut the affair with the obsessed OW, at least until the awkwardness with her husband blew over. The only one I am rooting for here is the delightful, horsey plot moppet daughter. Hopefully, she will star in some future Hplandia jaunt of her own, preferably in a majestic horse ranch somewhere in the Australian Outback, with a besotted Alpha hero who chases her relentlessly, all of which will make up for the icky dysfunctionality of her parents' relationship.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-03-13 00:00:00 Khashayar Nemati Received this book from a friend. I'm not a big fan of Romance novels, but I make it a point to read everything that comes my way. Compared with other romances I've read, this one seemed a bit lacking. I just thought it was a little too farfetched throughout. Not bad, but just not my taste.