I generally like this author. She has a terrible (but completely normal for HP) tendency to pick a few kinds of stories she does well and re-shuffle the formula slightly in her efforts. Despite that fact, the things I dislike about her writing style generally do not overwhelm the individual books themselves, and I have greatly enjoyed her other efforts.
I strongly recommend readers who are new to her to look up those past efforts. Don't waste your time here. SPOILERS start now.
I generally try to do an assessment of pros and cons when writing reviews, but THE con was so extreme that it's pointless to talk about the pros. It breaks down to one thing: the hero's brother ASSAULTED THE HEROINE. He flat out assaults her- drugs her and takes naked photos that he sends the hero in order to break them up. She lives with the idea that she voluntarily had sex with this man, and lives with the shame of that for YEARS, not to mention raising her son alone because she thinks the kid is the brother's. The hero thinks she cheated on him with his brother and literally treats her like a whore in order to punish her. Neither the hero or his brother ever have to pay for their actions, not even within the family, much less going to jail, which is what the brother really deserves. Dear author, any character who does this in a book needs to GO TO JAIL. DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200! The fact that he gets away with it and AS IF THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH the heroine agrees not to tell anyone what he did is SO HORRIBLE. I can't, I mean I just can't with this book. If it wasn't a Kindle book I would have thrown it in the garbage.
Plus, even if you don't think that the events as written are assault, it just makes the hero look like a massive weakling- so pathetic that he can't protect the love of his life from his own brother, and so insecure that he punishes her for being assaulted instead of listening to her for even five seconds. Who in their right mind would fantasize about this man? Who buys his actions as the actions of an idealized romance novel alpha male?
I do not read the HP series looking for progressive values- I know this imprint in particular is all about alpha males and the doormats who love them, but this crap right here is beyond the pale. An ending so horrible that it actually made me feel icky for reading it. I am so creeped out that I don't know if I will continue reading books by this author, even though when she is good I greatly enjoy her work. Fellow readers, you have been warned.
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