The Heir (Coulter Historical Romance) Review

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The Heir (Coulter Historical Romance) ReviewThe best part of this book was the secondary romance between the heroine's mother and the physician. There were some memorable characters - the mysterious French count, the spotty viscount (Lord Greybourne), the Talgarths, and of course, Elspeth who gradually moves from almost unbelievable naivete to a genuine love with a decent man.
What I hated were the hero and heroine. If you like Catherine Coulter in general, you will not like this review. I am not writing for the Coulter fans out there, but for readers who read other Regency historicals and who are trying out Coulter as a new-to-them author. I used to love Coulter back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her sensibilities are more in tune with that period, and she herself admits it in more than one review. What I don't understand is the profusion of re-releases of older works. [I do understand that they bring in a lot of money to publisher and author, but not why these re-releases are so popular].
I am not fond of ultra-alpha heroes who taunt and then rape their wives, or of conversation that consists largely of "damns". Re-reading THE HEIR again, Coulter sounds like Amanda Quick to me without the humor and wit, and with far more swearing from everyone.
I gave this one star not because the hero and heroine are so unlikeable, but because the story is more of a marriage that is basically a rape and founded solely on mercenary considerations plus mistrust and hostility on the part of the husband. We have a hero who jumps to conclusions, perhaps with some justification, but who does not change his mind about his fiancee's infidelity (Arabella was not even his wife when the supposed infidelity occurred). He continues to accuse her of adultery even after discovering that she is a virgin. When she charges him with rape, he does not answer that it is impossible for a husband to rape his wife (a legal reality back then) but that he did not rape her. He used cream. Yeah, right. And he continues in this train of thought for the whole book, more or less. Only the proof that someone else was with the French count is what changes his mind. Nothing that Arabella or her mother can say will do it.
Arabella herself is hard to like. She has a real attitude problem at the outset. She is blindly devoted to her father, a man who was abusive (physically and emotionally) to his young wife. She is completely unaware of the fact that her mother's marriage to him was a misery. Until the hero points out the examples of her father's infidelity, Arabella will not change her mind. In fact, she mentally calls her mother a trollop and an adulterous wife after learning that her widowed mother plans to marry within months of the late Earl's death. I can understand Arabella's love for a father who indulged her, I can understand her pain and shock that her mother would remarry so hastily, and I can even understand her suspicions that her mother has been unfaithful. What I cannot understand is her general attitude.
Yes, Arabella does stand up to the hero, her husband the new Earl. Yes, she is the only person for him, obnoxious that he is, the only person who can challenge him and keep him on his toes. If there had not been Justin's attitude through the novel and other clunkers, this book might have rated 3 stars.
Rated: 0.9
Recommendation: Avoid, unless you are turned on by a hero who almost puts Othello to shame, and by constant fighting between hero and heroine.The Heir (Coulter Historical Romance) OverviewA revamped regency from a #1 New York Times bestselling author When a marriage is arranged between a shrewd and strong earl and his equally matched cousin, they set off fireworks, both in their anger and in their passion.

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