The Rogue Files #4
“It took a near-death experience to bring her to her senses, did it?”
Marian
The premise made this book look intriguing, but it was never able to hold my interest. The main characters were too wishy-washy for me to like, and plot lines were either not fleshed out or left unresolved.
I didn’t care for either of the main characters, the longer I was exposed to them. Clara is strong enough to carry out her own ruin to get away from a miserable betrothal. She never really stops running, though. At the slightest provocation, watch her lift her skirts and run for the hills. The background information feels like it belongs to someone else since she comes across as a timid character in the main story.
Hunt is the opposite. He’s been told his whole life that he’s under a curse and so he’s determined to live life to the fullest but avoid any entanglements that might lead to children. Of course, those ideas fly out the window after he crashes into Clara. It annoys me when a character does an about-face like this solely because they’ve met the other main character.
The curse was actually one of the most frustrating parts of the book. Characters either fully believed in it or poo-pooed it. With the events at the beginning of the book, I expected more supernatural elements or even just a fleshing out of exactly how the family came to realize it was cursed. It also aggravated me that a skeptic like Clara didn’t investigate the curse’s origins or ways to break it. Instead, the characters treated it as a fait accompli and became a very morose bunch. Which, needless to say, makes for dull reading material.
By the end of the book, I was more interested in whatever happened to the prized bull than the main characters. The concept was appealing, but the execution was lacking. Ultimately, the ending made me roll my eyes, as it’s a cliffhanger for the next book in the series.
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