The end result is a book that is quite frustrating. In addition to that, this book’s plot seems to be pushed along by Colin being somewhat menacing towards the supposed former rake, and at least part of the attraction for the widowed Francesca towards Michael is because he was a rake and told her wicked stories of his seductions of other women, which seems to have eroded the sort of trust that one would expect. She wanted to create enough suspense to have a novel’s worth of material to work with, but in creating her plot she made two people who are rather ill-suited to each other and to a happy marriage because both of them are so prone to running away from their difficulties that it seems unlikely that they will be able to have a happy and stable marriage for all of their physical chemistry. Plot-wise, it is easy enough to see what the author was going for. This book manages to fall into a bit of uncanny valley in that it combines people who seem both incestuous as a couple as well as seeming to be too far apart emotionally to make a good couple. One of the things that makes this book unsatisfying is that it deals with two flight-prone people who, despite being good friends, are rather unsettling in their relationship with each other. This book is a particularly unsatisfying one.
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