katikat | B.J. James' "The Man with the Midnight Eyes", #128

This used to be my favorite romance when I was a kid. Today, though... I don't know. I think I'm just not cut for simple romances anymore. I just don't get women who don't feel truly fulfilled until they have a husband and a brood of children. Jacinda gave up her career to take care of her sister's child, which I can understand - but as the book progresses, she does everything to accommodate the boy and later on Dare, she just lets Dare take over her life and that's something that my very soul rebels against! I mean, the MacLachlan brothers are lovable but there were moments where I would have told them firmly to back off! Jacinda just went with it. And the romance itself was needlessly complicated by their reluctance to, I don't know, date? It just felt way convoluted and sugary at the same time. I do love the MacLachlans and their backstory though.