It must be late; I'm feeling forgiving
I shouldn't snark too hard on the book I'm working on. I mean, apart from the eye-dialect and the malapropisms and homonym-abuse, the author can actually put words together in active sentences that engage the reader.
Sure, the characters are overwrought and unbelievably melodramatic, but it is a romance novel, and that seems to be appealing to readers of the genre. Surely they would have a thing or three to say about the sort of characters I like in the novels I read.
And, I must say, the sex scenes are good. Having perused hundreds of these books in my career, it is rare for me to find a romance-novel sex scene actually hot. Most often they are kind of dull and trite, or perhaps laughable.