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Five-Second Review: The Mistress, Susan Wiggs

Jun 10, 2011 18:16

KATHLEEN, OUR HEROINE: Dylan! I must tell you something. I am not actually the rich heiress you thought me to be, but in reality a poor Irish maid ( Read more... )

romance, five-second review

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subluxate June 10 2011, 22:26:56 UTC

...so I just pictured you and AU-L-aka-Dylan having this conversation, and it's pretty much the funniest thing all day.

bookblather June 11 2011, 03:05:13 UTC

....ahahahahaha I would hope that Torey taught him better than to marry some random chick he'd just met because they were about to catch on fire.

Um, literally. Literal fire. As in the building was in flames at the time.

It was kind of a whirlwind romance.

(PS I would marry L if he wasn't gay/taken/both.)

subluxate June 11 2011, 03:07:44 UTC

Oh lol, because the building was on fire? Yeah, Torey definitely taught him better. (Also taught him the "USE A CONDOM" rule that, y'know, led to Dylan/L, but it's not like that's the reason he needs to use them.)

That's a hilariously fast romance.

I would ALSO marry L. Fight you for him. Possibly I'd settle for Michael, though.

...I could write a bizarro AU where L does marry you, but you'd have to be his beard.

bookblather June 11 2011, 03:41:28 UTC

If the definition of beard is "life partner who adores him and doesn't really give a damn who he has sex with," I'm ace. That's all fine by me. :D

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meganbmoore June 10 2011, 22:32:02 UTC

I KNOW!

And then she decides that he will still do EVERY SINGLE THING HE SAID HE'D DO AND THEN SOME, and makes him. And he is all "Why does that look you give me make me want to do selfless and heroic things? I am not selfless and heroic! WHY MUST ALL THE WOMEN IN MY LIFE BE LIKE THIS AND WHY DO I HAVE NO SPINE WHEN IT COMES TO THEM???"

bookblather June 11 2011, 03:05:57 UTC

I KNOW OH MAN. That's why I love this book, because Kathleen absolutely will not put up with Dylan's shit and Dylan loves it. But still, she would have been perfectly justified in killing him in this scene. No jury would've convicted her.

meganbmoore June 11 2011, 04:17:08 UTC

I liked this one when I was bingeing on Wiggs a while back (my favorite, IIRC, was The Lily and the Leopard) but what hit me is that Dylan's past actions are actually much closer to what an actual conman would have been like than the Robin Hood/"I only steal from those who can handle it!" thieves and conartists we usually get as protagonists, and I think Wiggs took that into account more than most writers do.

bookblather June 11 2011, 04:32:19 UTC

Oh, definitely. Of course, it did play into the redemption/rebirth theme she had going through the book, most obviously in Bull, so it is to her advantage as an author to be historically accurate. Makes for nicer reading, too.

As did the fact that Faith and Kathleen decided to be BFFs apparently on sight despite being technically maybe kind of sort of romantic rivals in a way. Also, I love Faith.