Status Updates From Mistress of Convenience

'Luke was fussing, manlike.' love that

'There was no woman Luke loved enough to give her his children.' What a weird way to think about having kids with someone

Abduction as a romance plot device always makes me angry, sometimes in a good way, but this one bothers me differently than usual - Luke is explicitly working for the govt in a capacity tht as far as I can tell is meant to be morally neutral or good, & he's made this unilateral decision - I mean from an American perspective, private security companies doing shady-to-outright-evil acts for our govt is v real

Luke hating sleazy tabloids is fair enough but then it's all "He had seen fighting men's lives risked and innocent civilians' lives lost for the sake of a 'hot' story" - I mean, is this PJ's brave anti war-reporting stance? Are we meant to think 'yes, reporters shld let the British military commit war crimes in NI (&c) in peace'? Also lol that she couldn't be bothered to come up w a country African president is from

The fact that the hero apparently "cut his teeth in Northern Ireland" (as an English army officer)...does not bode well. It's not like I didn't already know that Penny Jordan was conservative but woof!