Who doesn't love an abusive, assaulting orgy master?

Sep 28, 2010 22:37

Ah, and now I remember why I gave up on romance novels - blistering hero hate!

I got lulled into security by reading four romances in a row where the heroes were likeable, treating heroine and others around them with respect, and not in need of reform.

But that's all right.

Things are back to normal with Gaelen Foley's Lord of Fire. What an apt ( Read more... )

rant, badfic, heroes who need to be hanged, romance novels, romance you are doing it wrong, feminism

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scottishlass September 29 2010, 06:20:52 UTC
Sounds like some Korean dorama fangirls would have a ball with that novel. :s

I think it is a trend, most romance novel writers try to make their rakes/baddies into bad guys nowadays but they don't succeed. Because it is very difficult to create a lovable monster (hence my pet peeve with Beauty and the Beast ... where are all the other gals from before???).
One of the few where it worked IMHO was Born in Sin by Kinley McGregor/Sherrilyn Kenyon. This guy is a killer, the right hand to an English King, his rep is really bad and any sane noblewoman should stay away from him except .. except that he is a victim himself having become an assassin in order to keep alive in the hands of the Saracens and when he could escape offer his services to the English King in order to survive.

Anyway, that book sounds very much like the first ever book I read by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, The wolf and the dove. Norman lord claims Saxon maid, rapes her repeatedly and the stupid twit falls in love with him. HELLO ( ... )

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dangermousie September 29 2010, 19:34:46 UTC
Ooooh, thanks for the rec. I like Kenyon so will check this out (only reassure me this isn't as scar-making as Acheron. That was a good book but I had nightmares for a week, and if I'd read it after I had Baby Mousie, I don't think I could have gotten through it at all).

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katranna September 29 2010, 09:29:56 UTC
I forget, are you and thegreatmissjj following each other? Cause you should be.

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dangermousie September 29 2010, 19:34:58 UTC
Done :P

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