Why do I do this to myself?? I stopped reading anything by Stephanie Laurens a while ago, but for some reason I picked this up when I saw it in the library. And nothing has changed. 
 The heroine in every Stephanie Laurens book I've read is so ridiculously stubborn, I want to pull my hair out. 
 I don't know about anyone else, but I don't want my heroines to be prissy little shrews. A woman can be independent and strong without having to bend every man to her will, or go against everything anyone else says. Here's how these books tend to go: 
 Hero: "Don't jump off of that cliff, you'll kill yourself on the rocks below." 
 Heroine: "You can't tell me what to do!" Heroine jumps off the cliff. 
 Hero: "Thank god." 
 This one wasn't quite as bad as some of the other Cynster books, but it was still enough to be extremely frustrating. 
 Plot-wise, it was ok...not incredibly original, but there were some good moments. Unfortunately, when you actually are wishing the heroine will have a fatal accident, the romance aspect of it is lost. 
 This one was not so shiny.