Love's Awakening (Harlequin Romance, No 3116)

Rating:
Summary: Fair reading
Review: A fairly good book, but certainly not excellent. Selina was a young woman returning to her past in Greece. She was orginally only going for a vacation, but she realized she could not escape the long arm of the husband she had fled at 16 years old. Now 19, she has to face her family. Arranged to be marriaged to Alex, the head of the powerful Greek clan, AND her second cousin, she had always carried a crush on him secretly since she was very young. But she felt she was too young to wed him when her mother asked her to, and fled. Now, older and wiser, she thinks she still wants to disavow this marriage, but soon Alex changes her mind. It wasn't so much the age of Selina that got to me when she married, but that it was the same family. I also found Selina very silly and immature even at 19, forever viewing Alex in a childhood light, never as a man. I, at first, disliked Alex, but I soon began feeling sorry for him in how he couldn't seem to break past Selina's illusions. But I still give this book a mediocre thumbs up.
Cyndi