Sally Wentworth always wrote very well, her prose attentive and skillful, but this was truly bizarre. The craziness level can only be ratcheted up so far before the hero becomes irredeemable. Where thick historical romances like Stormfire have 400-500+ pages to deal with insane villainous heroes and their co-dependent heroines, a category romance is limited to 60,000-70,000 words. However, in this Harlequin Presents what the hero does to the heroine seems more repulsive perhaps due to its condensed nature. Take the bodice ripper great Stormfire, for example. It’s extremely violent, although I’ve read books where far worse events occur to the heroine. Sally Wentworth‘s Shattered Dreams is terrible, for all the wrong reasons. Then Kate overheard her husband’s grim plan for their future together–a plan of revenge against Kate! Desperately hurt and afraid of the stranger who was her husband, she ran away to Majorca, to heal her broken heart in safety and solitudeīut she underestimated the power of Hugo’s will and the compulsion that drove him to reclaim her–for better, or for worse! Shattered Dreams by Sally Wentworth The Book As Hugo’s wife, she knew the rest of her life would be blessed On her wedding day, Kate felt how miraculous was to truly love and beloved.
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