justabookeater's review
2.0
I'm just gonna come out and say that the main reason I didn't like this was because the book kept saying again and again that the heroine was "way too old" when she was just TWENTY FOUR. Related to this, there was also a line explaining that ideal brides were "young maidens" who were fourteen years old and I visibly gagged.
The story is pretty basic. You have Joan who just wants to be impregnated (I'm 100% serious) and Roan who wants an army to get back his lands. Joan thinks she's cursed because every guy she's been engaged to has died before the wedding and Roan feels he is underserving of love and refuses to sire children. You have two people who refuse to yield from their ideals but are reluctantly attracted to each other.
Besides my aversion towards anything relating to children, I just found the story to be incredibly boring. The children (there are so may in this oh my god) depicted seemed unnatural and did not act or talk like children at all.
I've never read a medieval romance before so maybe that's why I didn't really like it but oh well. Not for me!
The story is pretty basic. You have Joan who just wants to be impregnated (I'm 100% serious) and Roan who wants an army to get back his lands. Joan thinks she's cursed because every guy she's been engaged to has died before the wedding and Roan feels he is underserving of love and refuses to sire children. You have two people who refuse to yield from their ideals but are reluctantly attracted to each other.
Besides my aversion towards anything relating to children, I just found the story to be incredibly boring. The children (there are so may in this oh my god) depicted seemed unnatural and did not act or talk like children at all.
I've never read a medieval romance before so maybe that's why I didn't really like it but oh well. Not for me!
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