Lisa’s Reviews > Disciplining the Duchess > Status Update

H thinking of h in childlike terms when it comes to disciplining her. It just feels icky. Maybe it's the time period. She isn't a mature woman of contemporary times who would be able to understand why getting spanked might be exciting and be able to consent to that. She's very naive and childlike. It feels pervy on his part so far.

Not great. Not awful. Characters tend to be contradictory. Led to believe h is very intelligent, yet she's ridiculously naive about things that any person of her time should have known. H protects h from abuse of brother, yet I've read reviews saying he abuses her himself later. Brother is portrayed as abusive, then becomes protective when H asks for her hand.

Starting to go downhill. The author's plot to throw them together is stupid and on the part of the heroine, and she's supposed to be unusually intelligent for a young woman of her time. Most of this seems to have come about because the author wants "spanking" to be the hero's dirty little not-so secret since no one wants their daughter's to marry him because they know of this.