Renaissancecat22’s Reviews > Bought by Her Husband > Status Update

What in the hell are "bowls of wonderful fruit"? These descriptions are pitiful. This is the kind of book that should serve as inspiration that any old dreck can get published.

He's full of insults but most of them don't have much bite because they aren't that clever.

If his demand that she switch hotels were re-framed as being concerned about her safety, it could have easily been a character-building moment. Instead it's nothing. So far a lot of word count wasted.

"a nerve at his cheek briefly flickered in irritation."

1. Pretty sure that's not how you should phrase that...
2. That sounds like the symptom of an undiagnosed medical condition.

"you are still my wife, and as long as you remain so I have certain rights."
Gross. This was written in 2006.

I wonder if the author ever got confused about "black ice" and "black eyes." There must be a pattern to how she uses them interchangeably but I'm too lazy to figure it out.

How did Alexei even know how to find her at Jonathan's apartment?

So she can't stay with her mom and her college friend/future employee has a baby so she ends up staying with her friend's cousin. Male cousin. And this is where the trouble comes from.

"It was a bit like accepting some inevitable fate—like pigging out on holiday for a fortnight and knowing that the scales were going to be way too high when you got home."

Was the author on a diet when she wrote this? That comparison came out of nowhere.

Based on the little I know about these characters' backgrounds... I'm not sure this is how they should talk.