Visiting her mothers old friend Isabel Castillo in Mexico, Laura was hoping to draw on local colour as the background for her new novel She did better than that in fact form Isabel's lordly nephew Roman she found the model for her romantic hero. But romantic heroes are not always noted for the more desirable real life qualities of niceness and kindness and nor was Roman She would be very foolish Laura soon realised to fall in love with him For no woman it was clear; not even a wife would hold Roman Castillo's interest for very long
This is a very unpopular novel, the main reason is that the supposed H locks the h in a room like his ancestor was rumored to do and rapes her. Yep, no bones about it, no forced seduction, it was flat out rape and yet he still winds up with her in the end.
It almost works, but then it doesn't and thus all the one and two stars. Worth reading for the WTF aspect of it cause I know I read out of sheer disbelief.
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Visiting her mothers old friend Isabel Castillo in Mexico, Laura was hoping to draw on local colour as the background for her new novel She did better than that in fact form Isabel's lordly nephew Roman she found the model for her romantic hero. But romantic heroes are not always noted for the more desirable real life qualities of niceness and kindness and nor was Roman She would be very foolish Laura soon realised to fall in love with him For no woman it was clear; not even a wife would hold Roman Castillo's interest for very long
I personally liked the Mexican setting used by Elizabeth Graham in the second novel i ve read by her , first being "Jacintha point." However, I felt that there was too much cultural difference between the leads and it seemed to me that while 'forced seduction' might be unforgivable for some, according to another mindset it might be routine behaviour.
This one was very vague. The character building of the characters was not enough. I hate the heroin more than the hero, even though she was been raped by the hero.