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His For The Taking (Harlequin Presents Nights of Passion)

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This book did have some good bits, but overall I found the heroine shrewish and annoying. I'm all for strong women, but even though Zoe was sold as an independent person I don't think she pulled it off. She had a lot of attitude, certainly, but it was all on the surface. Underneath she was incredibly insecure, and at times she seemed almost emotionally stunted. There's a good chance she's also mentally stunted because I'd like to know what kind of woman living in New York lets a large strange man into her apartment and lets him stay there because he claims to be looking for his father, without macing him first.

There's one scene in the book where Zoe is crying because of unexpected news and Nick is trying to comfort her. It ends with her snapping his head off over a completely innocuous statement and then running away. I mean literally running away. She does this more than once, which is about two times too many. That's something I'd expect from a four-year-old, not a supposedly grown woman. The problem is is that Zoe only seems to have one setting, and the dial is turned to immature idiot.

The way the conflict is resolved between them was a cop-out: Nick hates cities (he has to since he's a park ranger) and Zoe (who has lived in a city all her life and makes a lot of noise about how much she loves New York) agrees to pick up her entire life and move out to the country because . . . she's tired of fighting her attraction to Nick and apparently everything she said about herself up until the last five pages of the book was a lie. Okay then.

Nick Giroux really DELIVERS in this one. You see, Nick Giroux was a simple country boy. You might say a cockeyed optimist, who could only deliver his package to her box, but then got himself mixed up in the high stakes game of world diplomacy and international intrigue. Great book!