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Uuuuugh! I am so close to finishing and so monstrously fatigued by this over-sugared empty piece of confection. If the author had simply sufficiently explored one of the many plot conflicts she’d initially set up she wouldn’t have needed so much manufactured melodrama. But why am I even complaining? I’m reading a romance novel. What did I expect from the genre? Nuance?

I will finish this. I am determined

I’m at the point where I have to consider if DNF is my option. If the thesis of the book is entirely dependent on the initial propositions argued in the first several chapters, and if those propositions are not successfully established (they are not), then is there any value exploring the subsequent propositions-the validity of which hangs on the veracity of what came before?

I truly expected better.

For the most part I am enjoying this book for what it is. And I certainly WANT to enjoy it. After all what else is the point of reading a silly period romance from the 80s? This is not literature and not trying to be. But I’m too annoyed by the contrived situations, anachronisms, two-dimensional characters, and forced misunderstandings. I know all of this is the point. But why can’t I just turn off my brain?

Sigh…..the deeper I get in the worse the reasoning and applied scholarship gets. What a disappointment.