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Cassandra by Chance (Harlequin Romance, No. 1689)

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I seem to be a bit picky today. HOWEVER, this book just has so many loose edges that can be picked. For instance, the hero is blind (oh, and a Dutch Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon who is not just interested in T & A. Tonsils and Adnoids, you dreadful thing!).

Harlequin probably could have started a separate line for blind heroes considering how often it came up-- of course the blind hero is nearly always cured by the last page but in this case the hero's blindness gets worse or better depending on whether the author needs him to draw the heroine closer emotionally or push her away without an explanation. You see, he couldn't saddle her with a blind man-- sob. Talk about a politically incorrect attitude-- it is offensive to women who might just find a man to be worthwhile without regard to his sight and to people who are blind. Heck, it probably is also offensive to Dutch Ear Nose and Throat Surgeons.

I was wondering during one of the dull patches in this book what would have happened had the hero had some really challenging problem instead of this coming and going blindness-- a very bad case of warts for instance, or some lower intestinal problem. That would have really told us something about the heroine's character. Instead he is bad tempered and she is weepy.

One interesting point but it's not enough to save the book-- the person who actually does the work in the household, Jan, is a concentration camp survivor who would have made a great tormented hero and who does get a bit of a story of his own. Odd how the one who has real cause for self pity bears up so much better than the hero.