Unforgiven

The Horsemen Trilogy

The Woodfall and Hayes families have been bitter rivals for nearly a century. Now, after eight years, Kenneth returns home and realizes his underlying love for Miss Moira Hayes. For her, he is willing to forget the past. But can she?

©2016 Mary Balogh (P)2016 Recorded Books

Moira is extremely irrational and Kenneth only appeased

Any one as irrational as Moira who purposely & stupidly walked home in a snow storm while graciously invited by her host to stay in a comfortable warm mansion. To spite the gracious host, she had to become the damsel distress without the warm clothes and needing to be rescued by her host as well as her childhood infatuation who actually cared about her. Moira would surely have frozen to death without her future husband, Kenneth. Moira is completely ungrateful and doesn’t mention her disregard for herself and the one who had to rescue her. To keep warm, Kenneth ensured the body heat of their bodies and subjugating both to conjugal relations which Moira enjoyed. With this encounter, Moira completely becomes even more hateful, lying, despicable, ugly, shameful, and the worst kind of person towards Kenneth, while he only wants to marry her and comfort Moira. After 3 months of her belligerent treatment towards Kenneth, Moira tells him she is with child. Kenneth being the proper gentlemen immediately forces Moira to marry him while she is still hateful to him. The problem with this scenario is that realistically historically and currently there are no persons that could withstand the irrationality of a person who is so hateful, contemptuous, deceitful, ugly, and cold could any person want to marry him or her!

Ok, but not the best

I found myself really annoyed by the heroine until the very end which makes it hard to enjoy the book. I also didn’t care for the circumstances around their first time together which felt a lot like he was taking advantage of her.. which made me hate him through half the book too. I love Mary’s book and have read many of them.. but so far this was my least favorite.

Okay Story

I usually love this author but it was hard to follow this story as the character Moira was quite frustrating. I wish they would have came to certain details earlier in the story.

Horrible heroine

I can’t remember ever disliking a female lead character, as much as Moira. She was just difficult for no reason. I wish her character development happened midway through the story, rather than at the very end.

Great story

Love the story line and series!
Well written and good character development.
A great listen! Thank you