Only With Your (Rapey, Creepy, Adulterous) Love
Oh, Lisa Kleypas, why?
I am fast coming to the conclusion that I don't care for any of Kleypas' stuff outside of her Hathaways and Wallflowers series. How one woman can write two series so good and the rest so not, is a mystery.
But while the rest of her stuff that I've read so far is solidly blah (about the best of the bunch is Dreaming of You, which is not bad but the fuss about which I do not get), Only With Your Love is a whole other kettle of fish.
I mean, what woman wouldn't want a true love who is a rapist pirate twin of your kinda-dead husband?
UGH!!! I don't read too many older romances, so I have been pretty lucky at avoiding hero-on-heroine rape that romances used to be so fond of 20+ years ago (only a rare book nowadays ventures into that territory, like Anna Campbell's Claiming the Courtesan, but at least in that one, the hero is portrayed as deeply disturbed, damaged and not right in the head and the heroine doesn't get over it lickety-split. It still makes me want to stab something, but at least the author realizes that sort of behavior is not the norm! And the fact that I even have to give points for that is insane).
But yes. Hero (I use the term loosely), is a pirate who purchases the new widow of his sibling and promptly proceeds to rape her. As one does. I'd think even if the idea of rape wouldn't give him pause, loyalty to his apparently nice dead sibling would, but no - that would not be macho! It's OK though, you guys - heroine totally has a good time once she gets over her resistance and the whole 'clawing his face off doesn't work' thing.
UGHHHHHHH!
Kleypas, you are dead to me.
ETA: I do not get the allure of pirates. Two words: crotch lice.
I am fast coming to the conclusion that I don't care for any of Kleypas' stuff outside of her Hathaways and Wallflowers series. How one woman can write two series so good and the rest so not, is a mystery.
But while the rest of her stuff that I've read so far is solidly blah (about the best of the bunch is Dreaming of You, which is not bad but the fuss about which I do not get), Only With Your Love is a whole other kettle of fish.
I mean, what woman wouldn't want a true love who is a rapist pirate twin of your kinda-dead husband?
UGH!!! I don't read too many older romances, so I have been pretty lucky at avoiding hero-on-heroine rape that romances used to be so fond of 20+ years ago (only a rare book nowadays ventures into that territory, like Anna Campbell's Claiming the Courtesan, but at least in that one, the hero is portrayed as deeply disturbed, damaged and not right in the head and the heroine doesn't get over it lickety-split. It still makes me want to stab something, but at least the author realizes that sort of behavior is not the norm! And the fact that I even have to give points for that is insane).
But yes. Hero (I use the term loosely), is a pirate who purchases the new widow of his sibling and promptly proceeds to rape her. As one does. I'd think even if the idea of rape wouldn't give him pause, loyalty to his apparently nice dead sibling would, but no - that would not be macho! It's OK though, you guys - heroine totally has a good time once she gets over her resistance and the whole 'clawing his face off doesn't work' thing.
UGHHHHHHH!
Kleypas, you are dead to me.
ETA: I do not get the allure of pirates. Two words: crotch lice.