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A review by rjordan19
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous in Plaid by Suzanne Enoch
2.0
Giving up on page 193.
I thought I would really enjoy this book. As I read the first few chapters the plot sounded like it would be fun. The heroine, Rowena has been in love with the hero, Lachlan, ever since she could toddle after him. He has always been close with her brothers and brushed her off as an annoying sister. She has enough when she turns 18 and goes to have a season in London, returning for her brothers marriage and moved on from Lachlan.
I imagined Lachlan being a man that is happy Rowena has finally moved on when she returns. I pictured the story pulling him further and further away from that certainty as he looks at her through new eyes and falls in love with her. Expectations....*sigh*....
Instead, Rowena returns, over Lachlan. Lachlan pulls her aside to say that they will never marry and she needs to move on. She damages his pride by agreeing with everything he says instead of fawning over him. Lachlans gigantic cocky ego can’t handle this, and then he proceeds to bother, harass, and force himself upon her until she realizes she loves him. Well, I didn’t reach the point of her loving him but I’m assuming it happens. I stopped reading after they were intimate yet she agrees to marry someone else. 🙄
Honestly I have such a headache from this book. It’s the third in the series I think. I do get the feeling it might be helpful to read in order since so many characters are here and a few scenarios from the past are referenced. I don’t think it affects the story drastically though. I guess I’m maybe just wondering if I would have liked either of these characters if I got to know them a bit in the other books. (Which I don’t even know if they are in there. Has anyone read this series?) Because I don’t like these characters. Not even a bit.
Lachlan comes off as the classic teen movie arrogant football star, strutting around with a massive ego. He never wanted Rowena until she said no and then he wants her BAD. Why? Is that love? No, that’s gross. That’s a conquest. A game. A notch in the headboard of people you’ve won. He doesn’t see her for 3 months, then basically tells her to shove off. Then IMMEDIATELY, like the next day, starts harassing her, kissing her, demanding she allow him in her room to kiss her goodnight, sneaks around her brothers and risks their trust and friendship (they are his BEST FRIENDS and basically family) and takes her virginity in the most boring, eye gouging love scene I’ve ever read. Oh sorry, skimmed, with my eyes partially rolled in my head.
Rowena could have been a likable character. She slaps him during one kiss and I almost cheered. But then she allows it to continue while insisting he means nothing to her. But I just cannot forgive a love scene with someone then purposefully agree to basically marry someone else. That’s not a love scene, it was sex. And it sucked. And I’m done.
I thought I would really enjoy this book. As I read the first few chapters the plot sounded like it would be fun. The heroine, Rowena has been in love with the hero, Lachlan, ever since she could toddle after him. He has always been close with her brothers and brushed her off as an annoying sister. She has enough when she turns 18 and goes to have a season in London, returning for her brothers marriage and moved on from Lachlan.
I imagined Lachlan being a man that is happy Rowena has finally moved on when she returns. I pictured the story pulling him further and further away from that certainty as he looks at her through new eyes and falls in love with her. Expectations....*sigh*....
Instead, Rowena returns, over Lachlan. Lachlan pulls her aside to say that they will never marry and she needs to move on. She damages his pride by agreeing with everything he says instead of fawning over him. Lachlans gigantic cocky ego can’t handle this, and then he proceeds to bother, harass, and force himself upon her until she realizes she loves him. Well, I didn’t reach the point of her loving him but I’m assuming it happens. I stopped reading after they were intimate yet she agrees to marry someone else. 🙄
Honestly I have such a headache from this book. It’s the third in the series I think. I do get the feeling it might be helpful to read in order since so many characters are here and a few scenarios from the past are referenced. I don’t think it affects the story drastically though. I guess I’m maybe just wondering if I would have liked either of these characters if I got to know them a bit in the other books. (Which I don’t even know if they are in there. Has anyone read this series?) Because I don’t like these characters. Not even a bit.
Lachlan comes off as the classic teen movie arrogant football star, strutting around with a massive ego. He never wanted Rowena until she said no and then he wants her BAD. Why? Is that love? No, that’s gross. That’s a conquest. A game. A notch in the headboard of people you’ve won. He doesn’t see her for 3 months, then basically tells her to shove off. Then IMMEDIATELY, like the next day, starts harassing her, kissing her, demanding she allow him in her room to kiss her goodnight, sneaks around her brothers and risks their trust and friendship (they are his BEST FRIENDS and basically family) and takes her virginity in the most boring, eye gouging love scene I’ve ever read. Oh sorry, skimmed, with my eyes partially rolled in my head.
Rowena could have been a likable character. She slaps him during one kiss and I almost cheered. But then she allows it to continue while insisting he means nothing to her. But I just cannot forgive a love scene with someone then purposefully agree to basically marry someone else. That’s not a love scene, it was sex. And it sucked. And I’m done.