When reading a romance novel I need either chemistry that is so good I could read thousands of more pages of the characters drinking tea or a plot that has me so captivated I'm engaged until the very last page. Often I find myself reading books that have equal parts of both but even when it pulls one way or another I'm pleased! This expectation of my reads is where this book fell flat for me on all angles. 

For starters - this book is almost 500 pages. In my humble opinion, no romance book should be that long and if it is (I have read some of this nature and it CAN be done well!) then it HAS to have a reason to be so long. This did not. At the 48% mark I found myself checking every few chapters how much longer was left and finding myself severely disappointed. 

Wyn and Roger didn't have much depth and even though I had almost 500 pages with them, I didn't care for either of them in particular and their romance (or lack there of) was cringey to me at best. The plot was nearly nonexistent and their entire fake engagement was spurred by something that just...didn't feel necessary of a fake engagement? It would have been pretty easy to simply ...not go along with it.... 

I also got a pretty icky misogynistic taste in my mouth throughout this and I could very well dig deeper into that but quite frankly - <em>I do not want to. <em/>