I think the thing that dropped this down from 3 to 2 stars is that while the writing was competent, it wasn't very interesting. There was a lot of superfluous description of furniture but very little of the people involved. They didn't seem to spend a whole lot of time together. Their trauma from years ago could have been a whole lot more traumatic. OMG! I just realized, this HP hero was not nasty enough for me. Now, I realize that not all HP heros are of the nasty bent, but if you're going to be an ass be a strong, arrogant, misogynistic, vitriol spewing ass. He ignored Abraham Lincoln's classic advice - "Whatever you are, be a good one." He was a wimpy ass.

She had a number done on her by her dead husband and the results of that stayed consistant throughout the book and were not just poofted away with the hero's first kiss.

And here for the only time I can remember, a character other than the heroine or the hero had substantial amounts of POV. ( )