Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Summer Comes Slowly (Rosemary Pollock)

Paperback

My first Harlequin romance ever! Oh, and also: my last Harlequin romance ever!

It's just truly terrible. Susanna is traveling with her grandfather/boss in Malta for his newest book. They meet the dashing and mysterious "ogre" Ramiro de Saez and become his houseguests. For no reason that I could divine, he goes from ogre to the love of Susanna's life in just a few short days. And Susanna goes from ignored nuisance to love of Ramiro's life in the same timeframe -- but literally seconds after his confession of love, he shoves her away and makes her feel like crap. Way to go Romeo...er...Ramiro.

Luckily the widower (of course he's a widower! how romantic!!!!1111) has a small son with a twisted foot to help these two see what's important to him had better damn well be important to them -- and, of course, what he wants is a Susanna-mommy.

Done. Ugh.

D (only escapes being an "F" because Gary started reading it to me in the car on a road trip. It was so funny that it's got to be worth something)