Interestingly my former, quite elaborate and scathing, review is gone. So let me just reiterate that I have rarely read such an epitome of a misandrisInterestingly my former, quite elaborate and scathing, review is gone. So let me just reiterate that I have rarely read such an epitome of a misandrist, sexist story written by a woman as this one. Something is very awry between American men and women, and it most assuredly is not what the author allows her heroine to lament in her stead.
The female protagonist is a sexist, fat-shaming pig, and the male protagonist has so much of no clue at all, that his intelligence seems to stay within reach of room temperature. Unfortunately the author doesn't write well enough to divorce her own narrative voice, and thus herself, from the story and its protagonists, so she will have to own up to their behaviour. Which is disgusting, especially the woman's.
Blech.
Oh, and the story itself makes no sense at all. We live in the 21st century, not in an age of impeccable manners. All the female protagonist would have needed to do was say "no" and leave. That is all, and it is extremely hard to - realistically - conjure such an arsehole before my reading self who'd rather fuck someone for manners than simply shrug and leave....more
This book contains the practically exact plot of "Pretty Woman", including all its characters, down to a friend of the hero who givLots of spoilers!!!
This book contains the practically exact plot of "Pretty Woman", including all its characters, down to a friend of the hero who gives Pretty Woman's Philipp Stuckey, and a fellow escort of the heroine who is the Kit De Luca-lookalike. Only in this book "Stuckey/Cole" gets married to "Kit De Luca/Jenny" after turning on "Vivian/Audrey". Of course "Edward/James" and "Vivian/Audrey" also marry.
Spliced into this is a double rendition of the vicious (murderous) stepmother from the original Cinderella-story Pretty Woman was based on. Of course we get the golden-hearted whore trope, rich people are all mean, grasping and emotionally stunted, and the whole fucking mess ends with a double marriage and oodles of children.
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I'll not even start on how terminally squicky the author's verbiage and mindset around escorting was, because the story per se is just utterly stupid and childish....more
So now going blind is an opportune plot device for crappy romance books? How fucking ableist and appropriWhat the fucking fuck? WHAT THE FUCK?!
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So now going blind is an opportune plot device for crappy romance books? How fucking ableist and appropriating!
How fucking inconsiderate to stack everything in favour of the wooby domly Dom, who is capable of changing where he lives, from one lap of luxury to the next. Who also is able to adapt his profession and income at the drop of a hat. As if.
How fucking convenient to have him have a sexy personal 24/7 helper just when he becomes helpless. How bloody idiotic to have the man rant about getting help, when the vast majority of disabled people DREAM of a fucking bloody hour or two of help PER FUCKING WEEK and DO NOT GET IT! How fucking practical for the story that this wondrous helpmeet is also into BDSM. As fucking if that was fucking likely, dammit!
I can't eat enough for how much I want to puke over this fucking ableist ditty of absolute and inconsiderate SHICE! This is certainly one of the worst books and solecisms I came across since "The Garconniere". How an author can be that tactless and present such an asinine Disney version of disability and blindness is beyond me.
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