After reading and loving [b:Reckless|7715163|Reckless (The House of Rohan, #2)|Anne Stuart|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1279471182s/7715163.jpg|10446097] I was happy to find this installment. However I found the plot and the lead character so extreme that I just didn't enjoy it that much.

Lucien was too dark to even find him remotely attractive. Usually if the lead is physically unattractive then he has a more developed and loving nature, and vice versa. Lucien however was physically scarred, and morally corrupted. I just couldn't get over the fact that he paid someone to kidnap Miranda and rape her, and then she fell in love with him and just forgave him...

I thought that the majority of the novel was just really repetative. Miranda pretending to be cheerful and loving probably should have been funny but all the "My lovers" and "My darlings" just annoyed me. The fact that Lucien resolutely attempted to ruin Miranda and her family right though until the last few chapters - where he attempted to let some more random men rape her - was just ridiculous. There was absolutely no attempt to develop him as a character at all, until basically the last page. There is a difference between a man not realising that he'd fallen in love and a man who is just utterly deluded...

Overall I did read it all, but had this been the first one I had read in the series then I probably would have stopped.