I'm not calling this a DNF right now for whatever reason. I can't explain it. I think I want to see what happens with other parts of the story, and I like the hero, but I just can't deal with this shit now. I'm yelling at the book and making wild hand gestures and it's just stressing me the hell out.

The ex dickbag showed up and she let him stay, too. He has now declared that they aren't leaving until things are better between Ro and her sister. Because she's pregnant and deserves to enjoy this time in her life or whatever the fuck. AND SHE LETS HIM SAY THIS SHIT AND AGREES TO SIT DOWN WITH THEM AGSGDHWNDJCNCSKSNCIEWMNSCOWICNEGANI!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS THAT?! And this one is even worse because the sister is a straight up asshole all around. I mean, even more than you have to be to do this kind of thing to your own sister.

Who knows if I'll ever be able to deal with this. Because I frigging hate this so much. Every time. WHY DO ROMANCE AUTHORS THINK WE WANT TO READ THIS CRAP?? Why is this a continuous trope? Why do heroines ALWAYS forgive? 

DO ANY OF YOU APPRECIATE THAT?! DO YOU?

That's a real question, because I have to know who actually likes reading a heroine getting shit on and then forgiving and forgetting because that's super cool or whatever the hell.

The sister has shown up unannounced, it has not even been a full page and I'm ready to set everything on fire. Remember this is the sister who married the heroine's, Ro's, finance while she was at war. Hobag sister has already bitched at Ro for cutting her out of her life. Said she needs to get over it, because she's pregnant with ex-dickbag's baby (his name is Dick, but it's just so apt in many ways). Bitched about where Ro lives being 'so far from civilization'. And demanded Ro let her in . . . AND SHE DID.

Nope. NOPE. If Ro just accepts this and helps this idiot out I swear to God it's DNF time. I don't have the patience for this even though I've had this book on my TBR forever and the author will be at the reader luncheon next month.

Only a few pages into this book and it's not going well already. Our heroine was just perfectly okay with her fiancé having married someone else while she was deployed and breaking up with her after. Yes, it's probably true that in the end this is the best thing as they didn't really belong together, but that doesn't negate the betrayal and unmitigated assholery it takes to do something like that. Yet she was even apologizing for not being enough!!

She did, at least, get pissed off when she found out the woman her fiancé married was her sister. 

But good lord, am I going to have to sit through another bullshit forgiveness storyline here? Probably, because she'll come to terms with it like all the others especially since she wasn't initially pissed off at the fiancé. Siiiiigh. I hate that.

*hopes she'll be pleasantly surprised anyway*

You know, sometimes people have difficult things going on in their lives they don't want to talk about or rehash because it's scary or painful for them. Not because they don't trust the people with whom they don't share their burdens. Libby needs to pull her head out of her ass and realize not everything is about her. I am so tired of her. She makes it hard to care about her getting an HEA. I especially hate Sam feeling guilty and like he has to grovel to her. Makes me dislike her even more.

I know I'm probably supposed to be on Libby's side here because it sounds like Sam was an unforgivable jerk 12 years ago. Even though I think she has a right to her anger she is annoying as all hell. I kind of feel bad for Sam because she's so unreasonable. And now she thinks he owes her an apology and explanation for his son? Uh, no. The way she's acting it shouldn't be a question why he didn't tell her about him. 

ETA: And, thankfully, she just figured it it out.

"She remembered Sam showing her the plans for the pavilion, and the way she had
brushed him off; Sam coaxing her down to pizza and karaoke night, only to have
her self-righteously proclaim that she needed to work; Sam asking her for
guidance in learning the job, only to have her try to dissuade him with
paperwork.

. . .

'Oh, crap. I have been such a bitch.'”

So, we're all agreed then.