Finally. Lisa Kleypas has finally decided to write a book about a bimbo. 
 Well, not exactly a bimbo. Just a horribly whiny female lead. Now I've read a tonne of Kleypas's books, and all her heroines are strong-willed, smart, and endearing, and they always snare the hottest guys. I was wondering when an annoying lady would take the spotlight. 
 Being familiar with Kleypas's works and writings, I am going to assume that Kleypas deliberately wanted to write about someone so bloody annoying, since I've come to know that there's nothing that she can't do successfully with words. Oh, feel free to disagree with me on your opinions of Lara. (Funny, the first person I thought she'd be was Lara Croft, but I find that she's NOTHING like her.) For the writer's sake I am going to assume that this Lara was meant to be suspicious cautious, unreasonably demanding a perfectionist, naggy thoughtful of others and verbally unresponsive reserved. 
 Well, firstly, I have to mention that I didn't really like the premise of the story. No spoilers here. I found it unrealistic, despite being set in the medieval times where technology/mankind was probably unadvanced. (view spoiler)[ Could a person really disguise as another person, ever as his/her lookalike? I find it hard to believe. For starters, in this book, the original Hunter must have been a fluffy guy who loved writing descriptions. That, or he's expecting that someday he's suffer from a huge memory relapse that he won't remember anything at all, because who would write their whole life history and biography in his journals? Furthermore, the imposter Hunter can somehow read and memorise a person's journals with his photographic memory and then recite all of it in front of strangers whom he somehow by a miracle of god can recognise and mix with as if he were best pals with them. Who the hell would write about somebody's moles and birthmarks in journals, especially someone whom he's dispassionate in in the first place? How could this go undetected by society? This is an insult to the people of those times! (hide spoiler)] 
 No matter. Lisa writes so well, she could make a donkey the suave, dashing male lead of a story anytime. And the imposter Hunter is so the suave, dashing male lead that every female reader dreams of that I'm willing to overlook the unrealistic plot of a story. Heck, considering imposter Hunter's past circumstances, I'm glad for him to have, at the very least, the four months of happiness that he very much deserves. 
 The male lead's perfections in character (I am not exaggerating) only highlights the female lead's lack thereof. Therein lies my biggest fustration for this book. Lara is supposedly kind to every one and every thing that lives, yet she takes her husband for granted(view spoiler)[, real or no (hide spoiler)]. (view spoiler)[Ok. Let's assume that Hunter was supposedly NOT an imposter. I certainly thought so at first. Hunter spent 4 years away from his family, wealth and luxury, and when he returned home, the very least Lara could do was treat him with basic courtesy. But oh no, Lara goes and says stuff like how she wished that she were single again, how Hunter should have never came back. But this Hunter is in actual fact a poor guy from pathetic circumstances. Of all the orphans, elderly, and women in confinement that Lara is eager to save (she actually pushes the brunt of the hard work to her husband), the very least she could do was be nice to Hunter, especially since he's been too nice to her instead. (hide spoiler)] And the Lara happens to stink at communicating. Especially to Hubby dearest. Yeah, she may be scared to be alone with Hunter, but come on, there are more things one can do with one's husband other than go to bed, such as talking right?! Especially when Hunter's been trying so hard to understand Lara. All she does is push him away. Except when it comes to asking for favours such as rendering help to someone in need, though how Lara could overlook the most deserving Hunter in the first place, I have no idea. Hence, there were a tonne of situations and arguments (on Lara's behalf) that could have been avoided in the book. Well, at least the story was lengthened. 
 There were a few mysteries that were left unexplained (view spoiler)[like how Hunter knew to get a scorpion tattoo etc (hide spoiler)] much to my disappointment. Kleypas's other works such as the Wallflower series and the Hathaway series are more highly recommended. To me, this book was short of chick-lit/fan-fiction.