A review by tessisreading2
Whisper of Sin by Nalini Singh

3.0

I felt like this one was really hampered by the heroine's family and the whole "she has a fiance" thing - I mean, they are supposed to be normal humans, and yet they're telling everyone she is engaged to a family friend she's not particularly interested in, and are surprised and outraged when it turns out that (a) the guy is a patronizing jerk and (b) he has a "mistress" (i.e. girlfriend) and (c) his parents (who are close friends of the heroine's parents) have an open marriage. (We're told that the husband cheats on the wife, but we're also told that the wife doesn't care, so I'm not going to be judgy.) Like, is that really how normal human families (or friendships) work? Because... not so much in my experience. The suspense plotline was also kind of shoddy, like, okay, fine, whatever it takes to get these two together, I guess.