Cancer Ships Aquarius

I - hmm - Okay. I like Reid, his abandonment issues suffer from abandonment issues, but he's such a loving guy. Sullivan is mostly okay, and, for all his growly stereotypeness, is a surprisingly sweet man. Joanna is not obnoxious - which is the most I can ever ask for from children characters.

The innuendo is strong in this book - kind of hilariously so. The slow burn isn't quite as slow as I would have liked. But the real problem for me - the problem that dropped this book from a solid four stars to a bare two? One of the couple willfully misleads and then lies through his teeth to the other. Lies through his teeth. (Honesty, I know you not.) It's supposed to show how insecure he is, or something, I guess, but I mean, come on!

His thought process was broken because lying about having a dead wife when it's actually a dead husband and thereby 'pretending' to be straight isn't going to stop you from falling in love with him. It wasn't even a case of trying to keep the other from falling in love with him, but trying to keep himself from falling in love - because it's not like his mind and body knows what it wants. Let's just pretend. Oh, and lie.

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Seriously, what will stop me quicker than anything from shipping a romance is when they start lying to each other - and for stupid reasons at that.

(I know Sunday has it in her to write an amazing book without such a cheap crutch, because she's done it before in this series. But this one just totally missed the mark for me.)