Madeline Hunter's "The Seducer" - #1 in the Seducers series
This book didn't work for me at all. I couldn't relate to either the hero or the heroine - they might as well have been from Mars for all that I could understand of their actions and motivations (most of which on the hero's part were only revealed at the very end of the book - I hate that). Individual scenes in the book were well-written, but as a whole it just didn't come together. If it had been written by an author who was new to me, I would've dropped it before even getting half-way through, but since I've enjoyed some of Madeline Hunter's books a great deal (the Rothwell series and the Rarest Blooms), I read through to the end in the hope that I'd become emotionally connected with the story at some point. But it just didn't happen.
