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A review by mom_reads_romance
A Warriner to Rescue Her by Virginia Heath
4.0
I'm liking this series a lot, and particularly liked this H/h. We meet Jamie in the last book, as the grumpy second oldest Warriner who was injured in the Napoleonic Wars and is struggling with PTSD and accepting his new physical limitations. He meets Cassie in the cutest way, by trying to get her unstuck from a tree. Instead, he gets a tantalizing view of her rear end and garters before she falls on him and flattens him. Cassie turns out to be the new vicar's daughter who is herself struggling with her life circumstances. She writes children stories through the eyes of her pony Orange Blossom. Cassie is so sweet and charming. Her self deprecating humor is charming, and shows how she has managed a sunny life outlook even though her father has done nothing for her self esteem.
Now, I had a few issues with both these books. First, the characters (and especially the heroes) tend to spend WAY TOO LONG in their own heads feeling unworthy of love. This would be tolerable to me IF the endings were a bit emotionally meatier. Especially in this book, but this does apply to both, I feel that there could have been a little more of the H/h together after their drama is concluded to balance out all the internal drama that happens for 80% of the book. I wanted more of the happy togetherness.
Second, I read the first 2 books of this series back to back. This made it quite obvious that they were very much the same plot, but reversed. In the first book they meet when H rescues a bound and gagged h from kidnappers hired by her old vile uncle, takes her home, and nurses her while holding her. In this book, towards the end H rescues h, bound and gagged by her old and vile father, takes her home and spends the night holding/comforting her. Both H's spend the whole book wanting h but feeling unworthy. Both h's have similar unworthy feelings, have essentially no family, but are braver in pursuing love with these dense men while falling in love with the "family" aspect of the wild Warriners.
Even though both books were similar, I liked this one a bit more. The meet cute won me. I liked the curvy h and grumpy H trope, and that Jamie reveals his true feeling through his paintings of these children stories so cleverly created by Cassie.
I'm taking a break to read other things before finishing this series, but I'm curious if they will deviate from the plot set by the first two. I do hope so.
Now, I had a few issues with both these books. First, the characters (and especially the heroes) tend to spend WAY TOO LONG in their own heads feeling unworthy of love. This would be tolerable to me IF the endings were a bit emotionally meatier. Especially in this book, but this does apply to both, I feel that there could have been a little more of the H/h together after their drama is concluded to balance out all the internal drama that happens for 80% of the book. I wanted more of the happy togetherness.
Second, I read the first 2 books of this series back to back. This made it quite obvious that they were very much the same plot, but reversed. In the first book they meet when H rescues a bound and gagged h from kidnappers hired by her old vile uncle, takes her home, and nurses her while holding her. In this book, towards the end H rescues h, bound and gagged by her old and vile father, takes her home and spends the night holding/comforting her. Both H's spend the whole book wanting h but feeling unworthy. Both h's have similar unworthy feelings, have essentially no family, but are braver in pursuing love with these dense men while falling in love with the "family" aspect of the wild Warriners.
Even though both books were similar, I liked this one a bit more. The meet cute won me. I liked the curvy h and grumpy H trope, and that Jamie reveals his true feeling through his paintings of these children stories so cleverly created by Cassie.
I'm taking a break to read other things before finishing this series, but I'm curious if they will deviate from the plot set by the first two. I do hope so.