Every author is allowed a few clunkers here and there (especially Romance authors). After all, their production is swift and there really are only so many plotlines out there. When a good or great author has a bad day, the resulting novel is usually passable. However, if the author is merely passable (as Bradley is), then the result is terrible.

Clunky and contrived dialog (with even worse accents), the characters too stupid and flat to care about, and a boring plot all convinced me to stop reading at page 33.

Since I tend to read through all of an author's work, I'm leaving a review so I don't make the same fool-hardy mistake of picking this one back up.

ETA: I did end up finishing the book. But I still didn't like it much and skimmed. A lot. The bad accents lessened a bit, but Bradley needs some lessons in writing jumping timelines and POVs without confusing the crap out of her readers.