I read this for Romance Book Bingo 2017: Man in a Kilt square. I have to have some happy right now and this book is it. I have been reading this since I was 12 or 13 and still have a copy of it on my shelves. The heroine (Johanna) kicks butt. The hero (Gabriel) kicks butt. We actually have a hero/heroine who thank God do not have any rape scenes between them. They reluctantly fall in love with each other which I thought was […]
Romance is Not for the Faint of Heart
Trigger warning: Rape The only thing that this book had going for it, was that it kept making me think of the Jem and the Holograms song, “Midsummer Madness.” I maybe played that song a lot while reading this book on Saturday. I needed some happy heading my way. Think of this book as the reverse “She’s All That.” Heroine is actually hot and smart young woman (Frances) who doesn’t want to marry the hero (Phillip). Hero marries her anyway though because he thinks she’s […]
King Mark Does Not Equal King Arthur
Trigger warning: Rape The heroine saved this book. Also though the hero did too eventually. A legacy of husbands only bedding their wives for an heir, and for them to wander along the moors being all sad and aloof was just flat out stupid. I maybe said that a few times. A family tradition of being cuckholded is some alt-right (you are Nazis!) crap. We have an appearance by Marcus and the Duchess (also we get to read about Marcus talking about how much his […]
This Trope Needs to Die
Trigger warning: Rape. I read this for Romance Book Bingo: Wedding Bells square. If I have to read this horrible book I am going to make it count towards something. Lord. Some of my favorite romance reads do not age well at all. Can we just say right now, that forceful marital relations (rape) between the hero and heroine is just appalling and gross to read about. I get it, those were the times, but I don’t want to read about it if I can […]
No rogues here, just a boring tale
Well, I’ve not read anything by Mary Jo Putney before, so this was an impulse grab at the library. It turned out to be a bad choice – it was a bit of a dud. I wasn’t sure if I was going to finish it or not, but I skimmed through parts of it just to get through it. The plots (there’s more than one going on) seemed predictable, and the characters weren’t that memorable. The hero wasn’t a rogue in the least, either, so […]
The Duke of Problematic Heroes
This review is for the audiobook version of The Duke of Sin, by Elizabeth Hoyt. I’m generally a fan of Elizabeth Hoyt, so when I saw that my library had a new audiobook from her I jumped at the chance, but this one was a bust. The biggest flaw is that the hero is a horrible person. He literally kills a man in front of our heroine, and they hide a body. The dead man didn’t even threaten them, he just betrayed the Duke by […]
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