There's a contingent of people who say, "Romance novels are just porn for girls," and normally you can argue that, but WOW there was a lot of sex in this book. Page after page after page of sneaking-around sex, sometimes just out of view of a ballroom behind a fern or something.
I really liked the way the book uses romance novel tropes; our heroine, Amanda, wants a big tough dark brooding alpha male type, so she goes and deliberately hangs out in places where she knows she'll get in trouble so her big tough dark brooding man will come save her. (He has a secret tortured past which precludes him from loving anyone as well-born as she is, obviously.) It was nice to have the heroine do stuff that should have been Too Stupid To Live, but on purpose. Then they have sex (SO MUCH SEX) and he's like, "Well, now we HAVE to get married," and she gets mad and refuses to marry him, so he tries to sex her into marrying him for like 300 pages. Oh, and at the end someone shoots someone and dark histories are revealed and they get married.
Seriously, though, where did he get these amazing lead-lined noise-blocking ferns?
Grade: C
Originally posted 2010
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