By the time they come to some sort of understanding, I felt frustration and by the time they resolve their differences, I’ve lost interest.Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. To make maters worse, the wrong assumptions these two had about each other and their refusal to communicate and give each other the benefit of the doubt, took 80% of the story. This was supposed to be a romance, yet I felt no chemistry between the two. Even their love scenes felt forced and stilted, unbelievable. This had a potential to be such a warmhearted and touching second-chance at love romance, but the characters did things that were peculiar and awkward.

No amount of interior musings on the part of this heroine was ever going to make me like her. I found myself livid with the heroine’s attitude and reckless actions. I not just didn’t like it, I detested it. I genuinely cared for them and their plight. It’s what made them interesting and compelling. Balogh’s characters is because she gives them flaws which makes them real, but she also gives them plenty of time to grow with the story so that by the end they are richer and well rounded. Why write such a self-righteous, self-pitying and all round pathetic human being? I’ve said before that the reason I love Ms. Color me surprised as I dug deepper and deeper into this story. Balogh’s Horseman Trilogy series in which we meet four friends who’ve survived and returned from Napoleonic wars. Now, since I read and loved her Survivors Club series, I was pleasantly surprised that she’d decided to reprint this series and I liked the first book and Rex and Catharine’s story, so I was sure that this one would be just as good. The writing was very good and distinctly her own, so what went wrong? That’s the question I’m going to try and answer. REVIEW: What just happened? I just can’t believe that this book has been written by my all time favorite author. Because Kenneth is more than willing to forgive.

The moment he sees her again, he knows his future. And he isn’t willing to forget the past-a time he shared with his first and only love, Miss Moira Hayes. And he was the reason-though indirectly-for her own brother’s death.īut Kenneth has returned from war and is home for good. After all, their families had been rivals since their great-grandfathers’ day. Nor did she want to see this man who stirred such feelings of anger in her. STORY: Moira Hayes hadn’t seen Kenneth Woodfall in nearly eight years.

Unforgiven by mary balogh