jewelc 's review for:

Dearly Despised by Alessandra Hazard

3.0

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3.5 Stars

I have some mixed feelings about this one. I rather wanted to push Samir's mother off a cliff. Repeatedly. But I liked Samir and Warrehn. I do wish that the story focused more on Samir and Warrehn, though, and less on Samir's mother's conniving machinations and I'm really not sure about that ending. I did not like that the focus of the ending was

Spoiler

mummy dearest getting her very undeserved happy ending, instead of it being all about Samir and Warrehn,

so I rounded down. I felt the ending was kind of a let down.