Sara's Reviews > Strawberry Hill

I think Vickie Brown is the most unlikeable Anderson heroine I've ever read. There, I said it. The weird thing is I thought I was going to dislike ERIN more, because she was a neurotic mess of Daddy Issues who used it as an excuse to be rude, but she had better character development than Vickie. Who was supposed to be the heroine of this story.

Vickie was just so self-centered and whiny. Being a single mother who had to escape an abusive marriage sucks, yeah, but she put herself in that position by believing a conniving bitch over her own childhood best friend and the man who loved her, then spent 40 years feeling sorry for herself and blaming Slade.

Slade Wilder did nothing wrong. Literally. April lied to Vickie, April hid the letters, and Slade was awesome when he strong-armed April into telling the truth. That said, April was a typical romance novel bitchy vamp, mean to the heroine, tried to escape karma, etc. Honestly Slade giving her hell was awesome enough, I didn't need to see Vickie triumphantly beat her up. I don't care that she got hit and Slade had to save her in the end.

I just hope Erin and Wyatt's story is better. Erin ended up getting some great character development, especially her scene with Noreen. I hope Noreen's life improves in the next book, too.

The bear was cute, though, not gonna lie. Even if keeping a baby bear as a pet is the worst idea ever and I'm glad the book at least acknowledged that it's illegal and unethical. Not surprised Slade got to keep the bear in the end, though, oh well.