Marry in Scarlet by Anne Gracie
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Boring.
Georgiana (the female MC) is a lady that doesn’t want to marry, and just wants to retire to the country with her animals.
Hart (the male MC) sees her as a good enough female to become his wife, so he schemes to entrap her into holy matrimony.
80% of the bloody book is filled with nothing. Georgiana goes around physically hurting men, dressing in men’s clothing, being angry at everything, and in denial for chapters on end. It was an endless, “I don’t want him”, “I want him” throughout the novel.
For whatever reason, she only wants to be called ‘George’. She’s very adamant about that. When Hart does, it was slightly disturbing. Especially in the sex scenes. In the beginning of the book, when I was still learning the characters, it was very confusing; I kept wondering who this George fellow was, and where the actual female MC had gone off to? To be honest, even later in the book, ‘George’ would still throw me off.
Hart is simply brooding and silently staring and, seemingly, following her like a puppy all the while in wonder at her majestic personality and how he’ll “never be bored” with her as a wife.
Gag. I don’t know what he saw in her. I don’t know what she saw in him.
I was even hoping when they finally had sex, it would become a bit more interesting, but even their wedding night failed abysmally.
No secondary characters took my attention either. Everything was just a massive ‘meh’.
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