Hannah Meredith

This was too short to make the most of its storyline, IMO. The setup made me hope for some solid angst, but it gets resolved far too quickly. The hero married her for her money, spent it on setting up his mistress, foists his bastard on his wife with a note bemoaning his lost love (TO HIS WIFE), and abandons her to join the military for no reason. And she just forgives him, he doesn’t even DO anything to win her back. She jumps into bed with him the day he returns. I get the whole “people make dumb mistakes when they’re young” thing and “war changes a man” or whatever, but this was too short to really show any changes. Resolved far too quickly and easily for my tastes, I want the angst!… (mehr)