Mel's Reviews > Finding the Dream

The worst of the lot. It's so fucking antiquated. UGH!
Nora Roberts has this hero-type in many of her books who hooks his thumbs in his pockets and calls the heroine "sugar". It's excruciating.
I made my husband hook his thumbs in his front pockets just to get a visual and now he is tormenting me by striking a pose and calling me Sugar.
I imagine in 1997 this was probably an exciting romance: Bad boy falls for divorced heiress with sweet little girls and there are horses who do tricks trope, but it doesn't hold up.
Another thing that really bothered me was the horrible portrayal of class distinction. In the first book the heroine is the Irish immigrant housekeeper's daughter and the hero is yes the son of the house. She is portrayed as a impulsive gorgeous slut and he is portrayed as just about perfect. Of course he rescues her and shames her and forgives her through the course of their courtship and they live happily ever and have a bouncing baby boy. There is a lot of shaming in that book and it's unbearable.
In this book the heroine is the daughter of the house whose family has a luxury hotel empire, but all through the series she is broke because her husband raided the bank accounts when he was found cheating on her in the first book. It's so stupid a premise. Her family is mega rich but she "might have to layoff staff cuz she ain't got no money" SHEESH! The I'll do it on my own trope is beyond ridiculous in this scenario.
The hero in this is portrayed as bad boy from the other side of the tracks who has been a soldier, a mercenary, a race car driver and a stuntman who has decided to raise and train horses for the entertainment industry and he's only 35! I kept asking myself how he could be from the other side of the tracks when his parents owned prime real estate in the Carmel Highlands and retired to Boca Raton. There is a lot of shaming in this book too. The whole thing is just stupid and put me in a bad mood.