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Review by Jauthor97 -- For the Love of Suzanne
[Following is a volunteer review of "For the Love of Suzanne" by Kristi Hudecek-Ashwill.]
1 out of 4 stars
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Kristi Hudecek-Ashwill’s romance novel, For the Love of Suzanne, is set in both 2014 and 1860. It is a typical romance featuring the heroine’s misfortunes and the hero’s chivalrous devotion. It begins with the death of Suzanne’s abusive husband, after just finding out she is pregnant. Weeks after the funeral she takes a drive in the desert and manages to literally crash into another time, the 1860’s. She is saved from the wreckage by a half-breed Indian. His goal becomes to get her back to 2014, and through the trials, misfortunes, and misplaced honor they fall in love.
I don’t believe I have been as annoyed with any other book as much as I was annoyed with this one. I had thought the book would be more insightful and intriguing then it turned out to be. But the under- development of the characters assured the monotony of the book. Suzanne’s character was a disappointment in that she was a flat character. She remained the exact same from the beginning to the end, the only difference, that is shown in the book, is her varying levels of happiness. Also, the damage she receives through-out the book is laughably unbelievable. Not that it is unlikely that she would have suffered, but the amount of beatings she received should have killed her, especially in her pregnant state.
Our hero, the half breed Indian, is not much better than the heroine. He speaks of honor and integrity, and yet is ready to turn over women to his chief, a man known for torturing, raping, and murdering white women. He talks about his hatred of war and strife, and yet he brings about almost every single one of the many deaths that occur in the book. He is portrayed as a fearless, courageous man and yet shows a cowardice and unsure character in the end. He is portrayed as this deep character, but is disappointingly shallow.
While the book’s genre is romance, a romance that is simply a repetitive circle of insecurities and misfortunes is a pathetic excuse even for a romantic novel. The heroine and the hero’s predicaments are unoriginal at best. The constant abuse and pain of the heroine and the melancholy of the hero are some of the oldest clichés known to romance. Those clichés are tediously repeated over and over again throughout the book with the hero’s constant inner battle with his belief that he is unworthy of love, and the repeatedly cruel abuse of the heroine.
I gave this book 1 out of 4 stars because of the unoriginality of the plot, the shallowness of the characters, and the tedious repetition of character flaws and avoidable clichés. The only redeemable quality of the book would be the accuracy of the mistrust and vileness of the 1860’s. Even a romance has to have something better than two obnoxiously shallow characters falling in love. This romance novel was exactly that.
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1 out of 4 stars
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Kristi Hudecek-Ashwill’s romance novel, For the Love of Suzanne, is set in both 2014 and 1860. It is a typical romance featuring the heroine’s misfortunes and the hero’s chivalrous devotion. It begins with the death of Suzanne’s abusive husband, after just finding out she is pregnant. Weeks after the funeral she takes a drive in the desert and manages to literally crash into another time, the 1860’s. She is saved from the wreckage by a half-breed Indian. His goal becomes to get her back to 2014, and through the trials, misfortunes, and misplaced honor they fall in love.
I don’t believe I have been as annoyed with any other book as much as I was annoyed with this one. I had thought the book would be more insightful and intriguing then it turned out to be. But the under- development of the characters assured the monotony of the book. Suzanne’s character was a disappointment in that she was a flat character. She remained the exact same from the beginning to the end, the only difference, that is shown in the book, is her varying levels of happiness. Also, the damage she receives through-out the book is laughably unbelievable. Not that it is unlikely that she would have suffered, but the amount of beatings she received should have killed her, especially in her pregnant state.
Our hero, the half breed Indian, is not much better than the heroine. He speaks of honor and integrity, and yet is ready to turn over women to his chief, a man known for torturing, raping, and murdering white women. He talks about his hatred of war and strife, and yet he brings about almost every single one of the many deaths that occur in the book. He is portrayed as a fearless, courageous man and yet shows a cowardice and unsure character in the end. He is portrayed as this deep character, but is disappointingly shallow.
While the book’s genre is romance, a romance that is simply a repetitive circle of insecurities and misfortunes is a pathetic excuse even for a romantic novel. The heroine and the hero’s predicaments are unoriginal at best. The constant abuse and pain of the heroine and the melancholy of the hero are some of the oldest clichés known to romance. Those clichés are tediously repeated over and over again throughout the book with the hero’s constant inner battle with his belief that he is unworthy of love, and the repeatedly cruel abuse of the heroine.
I gave this book 1 out of 4 stars because of the unoriginality of the plot, the shallowness of the characters, and the tedious repetition of character flaws and avoidable clichés. The only redeemable quality of the book would be the accuracy of the mistrust and vileness of the 1860’s. Even a romance has to have something better than two obnoxiously shallow characters falling in love. This romance novel was exactly that.
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