For the most part I really enjoyed this story, but there were some things that tickled my "pet peeve" button on more than one occasion. 1) the author started way too many sentences with the word "and"... maybe my English teacher was a big fat liar and using "and" in a sentence at least half a gazillion times isn't really a sin... not that it matters what my old English teacher thinks, because in my rule book of "Jessica's Giant Book of Made Up Rules for Writing" using "and" to begin a sentence is a no no. Unless it's used in a SPARSELY in a conversation. 2)For someone who kidnapped someone else to exact revenge on someone else this hero was way to nice to the heroine. I would have liked to have seen our "villain" be a huge jerk to his hostage for a few chapters and then gradually warm up to his captive. But that's just me, I'm a sick sadist that way. Sorry. 3) Some things were very repetitive like (these are NOT exact quotes, I'm ad-libbing the basics of what had been said):"he would have thought his captive would been shaken with fear over her circumstances, yet she held no fear. Her defiance and bravery intrigued him when it shouldn't have. Other women in her position would have simpered in fear.""our families have been at war for generations. Our fathers, their fathers, and their fathers fathers, and maybe even more further than that have been fighting this silly feud. We don't even know what we are fighting over. We just are."Here's the thing. Tell me twice, three times at most, about key information to a story, anything beyond 5 times is just annoying and I start to feel like you are just trying to increase your word count any way possible.HOWEVER!!! I still enjoyed this story. Were there things that I didn't like? Clearly. But it still didn't take too much away from the story itself. So while it wasn't "hands down fantastic" I still enjoyed it enough to want to read the next book in this series. My previous experience with Jess Michaels was with An Introduction to Pleasure, which was awesome, so I definitely had very high expectations when I started this one. It was just okay for me. The premise of the book involved a long standing feud, the origins of which were never revealed. I can sort of see why, for story purposes, but I think it would have been better if everyone found out the reason. Unfortunately, this lack of information became a pattern. There was so little information about supporting characters that they may as well have not been involved at all and the ending was very abrupt with no epilogue. The sex scenes were good, though. :)
