The Darkest of Secrets
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780263236507 (0263236501)
Publish date: September 1st 2012
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
This was a frustrating read for me. Hewitt has a great voice for Presents, and the story was technically well-written. Unfortunately, the story itself traded heavily in regret, remorse and guilt and after the truth behind their feelings come out the heroine reads like a weak-ass martyr.
I kept waiting and wanting to like this book. My hopes were high almost to the very end and then they were crushed by the big reveal.Spoilers below.* Her darkest secret was her affair with the property manager during her unhappy marriage.* She eludes to an unhappy and possibly abusive marriage, but ...
I'm having a great run of original, well-written Harlequin Presents lately -- seems like they've changed more than just their awful titles. This one also kind of plays with the genre conventions, which I love: Grace's past is right out of a traditional HP, except in her case, it worked out very badl...