Customer Reviews

Bad Enemy (Thorndike Large Print Popular Series)

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To placate her critically ill grandfather, Lisle agrees to marry Jake. She abhors him for taking control of the family business and he detests her for the party girl that he thinks she is.
I'm sure they work out their differences in the long run, but I lost interest early on and didn't even finish the book.
I've read other books by Sara Craven that kept my attention, so I think this was just an early effort of hers that seems fairly ho hum.

Definitely a mere 2 or even 1 star effort, the worst fault of A BAD ENEMY is that it totally lacks any basis or reasonable motivation for the happy-ever-after eventually reached by the hero and heroine.

The couple spend nearly the entire book fighting and sniping at each other, although (par for the course for a Harlequin romance) they are sexually attracted and some kisses and caresses are exchanged. About halfway through the story, suddenly, the heroine thinks, Oh, my gosh, I'm in love with him --(although their acquaintance is approximately one month, if that, and they've spent all their time fighting). She feels that her chances with the hero are hopeless (!) so she passively runs away, instead of breaking off her engagement to him face-to-face.

The story was completely unbelievable, and unbelievably annoying. Wooden unsympathetic characters in a silly story. Can't recommend.