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A Woman Scorned (Lorimer Family & Clan Cameron #2)
by Liz Carlyle
by Liz Carlyle
So boring. Wanted it to end. No emotional buildup.
Reads like a long drawn out mystery – slowly peeling away the layers of an onion. Although, I think many readers will be able to figure out who the villain is and what the Delacourt secret it long before the author gets around to revealing them. The characters and events weren’t interesting enough. I wanted it to be over. Someone killed Jonet’s husband. Cole became a tutor for her two boys. She and Cole started falling for each other. Jonet spent a lot of time with Delacourt before her husband died and continued seeing Delacourt during her relationship with Cole. She knew Cole thought she was having an affair with Delacourt, but she made no attempt to convince Cole of the truth. She slept with Cole one night then visited Delacourt the next night. She could have stopped her visits to Delacourt, or taken Cole with her when visiting, or in some other way shown him that she merely had a platonic relationship with Delacourt. But she did nothing rational like that.
CAUTION SPOILER:
After Jonet and Cole fell in love and decided to marry, Jonet should have known he was trustworthy, and she should have told him the secret about Delacourt. But she didn’t. Instead Cole had to leave her for two days to travel to Delacourt’s home where he learned the secret from Delacourt’s mother. Cole continued to keep this secret into the future. I didn’t care for this “keeping the secret” conflict.
Sexual language: moderate. Number of sex scenes: six. Setting: London, probably 1800s. Copyright: 2000. Genre: historical romance.
To date, I’ve read one other book by Liz Carlyle. My 3 star review for her book “Two Little Lies” copyright 2006 was posted on 7/29/08.
Reads like a long drawn out mystery – slowly peeling away the layers of an onion. Although, I think many readers will be able to figure out who the villain is and what the Delacourt secret it long before the author gets around to revealing them. The characters and events weren’t interesting enough. I wanted it to be over. Someone killed Jonet’s husband. Cole became a tutor for her two boys. She and Cole started falling for each other. Jonet spent a lot of time with Delacourt before her husband died and continued seeing Delacourt during her relationship with Cole. She knew Cole thought she was having an affair with Delacourt, but she made no attempt to convince Cole of the truth. She slept with Cole one night then visited Delacourt the next night. She could have stopped her visits to Delacourt, or taken Cole with her when visiting, or in some other way shown him that she merely had a platonic relationship with Delacourt. But she did nothing rational like that.
CAUTION SPOILER:
After Jonet and Cole fell in love and decided to marry, Jonet should have known he was trustworthy, and she should have told him the secret about Delacourt. But she didn’t. Instead Cole had to leave her for two days to travel to Delacourt’s home where he learned the secret from Delacourt’s mother. Cole continued to keep this secret into the future. I didn’t care for this “keeping the secret” conflict.
Sexual language: moderate. Number of sex scenes: six. Setting: London, probably 1800s. Copyright: 2000. Genre: historical romance.
To date, I’ve read one other book by Liz Carlyle. My 3 star review for her book “Two Little Lies” copyright 2006 was posted on 7/29/08.
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