And then suddenly Seth decides that he can't lie to himself and declares that he loves Jane-such an artificial, unconvincing change given that we never saw any growth in the characters. There's no emotional growth arc, no deeper character development beyond Janes loves Seth, Seth refuses to love Jane rinse and repeat. Even when we finally get to move on, the story continues to feel as if it is just treading water, so to speak and the likely reason for this feeling can be blamed on how the novel keeps strumming the same one note. I kept waiting for the story to kick in, but readers are forced to suffer too long in witnessing page after page of Jane's unbearable living situation. Although the story isn't bad, I found the execution of the great setup disappointing. Complications arise from that encounter that compel the two to marry, even though the hero refuses to fall under the power of another woman such as the heroine.Ī good premise can go a long way without it, I might have abandoned this book early on. This hero, Seth, happens to be the one man she's loved since her childhood even though he was infatuated with and soon discarded by her younger sister. We have Jane, our heroine, who's a widow living under the thumb of her awful in-laws but manages to have a steamy encounter with the hero at a ball. One Night with You had a pretty good premise.
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