A review by bez9918
The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn

2.0

I don’t know which put the nail in the coffin on my dislike, but it could’ve been the fact that her pregnancies were the only thing to move this man to action, or the continued reference to her falling in love with him as a child while he was an adult, or the unbridled and purposeful selfishness of the love interest, or the childish aggression shown by both characters. No matter which did it in for me, this truly felt like a story of unrequited love that was met with obligation till the end. There’s a single line that Turner says that tries to reconcile the fact that he was loving what she did for him and not her, but a single line doesn’t resolve an entire book filled with that. In the end, it didn’t feel like love and that isn’t what I read romances for.