![]() ![]() ![]() Misogyny, particularly the stereotyping of blonde women, is my #1 pet hate in fiction. ![]() While every other character was referred to by name, she was always called “the blonde” from page one, even by her friend. The heroine’s friend was – of course – blonde, outgoing, slutty, shrill, pushy, annoying and disloyal. There was also a pretty serious tone of misogyny running underneath. However, I think it should have gone through a few more revisions to both tighten the story and make the insta-attraction between the two main characters plausible. The reason I requested it for review was because I thought the blurb was interesting. This book is classified as romance we know they’re going to get there in the end, so it doesn’t need to be established from the outset. I’m not interested in a beaten and kidnapped woman being turned on by her captor even as she thinks he’s about to rape and murder her. dangerous) times, and Desire & Deception committed this crime over and over. To do romantic suspense well, you can’t have mental lusting (or full-on sex!) at inappropriate (i.e. The choppy scenes and descriptions clearly worked in the author’s mind, but on the page they were confusing and random. World’s quickest case of Stockholm Syndrome aside, there was something about the way this book was written that didn’t… work for me. What’s with the weird first sentence of the blurb? Home ownership is hardly crucial to the plot! ![]()
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