Another one for my quest to red the first 100 HPs. This one is numbered 28. It was a bit purple prosy but on the whole was pretty well done. I really enjoyed it right up until the very last. You could see all along that the hero was crazy for her. She was written pretty well as an 18 year old who was pretty clueless. The end failed it though The heroine's mother told the heroine that the hero was in love with her and all about his plot to get her to marry him etc. That's a cop out on it's own but it was made worse by the fact that even that happened off screen. So the heroine basically comes to the hero and says 'so your mother told me you're crazy about me. Very lame. The rest was a 5 star oldie read. That bit was 1 or 2 stars so averaged out to 3 . ( )

3 stars for the crazy of it all. I'm giving him the No. 1 Asshat of all time award. Not only was he going to knock up a woman innocent of all wrong doing but then he planned to go off and leave her to raise his baby without any help. It's really no wonder she fell in love with him. ;-) He didn't do nearly enough repenting and groveling at the end.

And then his line about not wanting any reward for saving her from rape but that he only did what any decent man would do. That was a WTF moment for me. 'Cuz wasn't the whole book an illustration of just how indecent he was?

Still best blackmail threat EVER. If you don't get on your hands and knees and beg me to f*** you and knock you up, I will make sure to beat your 19 year old brother severely enough that he will never father another child if he even manages to walk away.

What a prince. Sigh... ( )