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Helpful Score: 1
I found this book to be quite confusing. It takes a while to figure out what's going on and with whom. This is not a typical romance book. There's nothing romantic between the hero and heroine. This is also not a happy book. There's a gloom that hangs over much of the book even to the end. This is a story about male prostitution and its effects on one man in particular. Expect to read a book with a lot of mental trauma and angst.
The author write like this.
She writes one simple passive sentence paragraph.
Then she leaves a big space and writes another sentence.
Her style of writing requires you to read a sentence over again to figure out what's going on, and the last sentence has to be much longer than the sentences that preceded it.
The hero in this book had every right to be troubled, but his characterization was so lacking that I didn't understand him well. There's also no heat or chemistry between the two main characters. While there are some explicit sex scenes, I didn't find most of them to be particularly erotic at all. The one really erotic scene involved two people other than the main characters. I'm all for smutty scenes, but it was very difficult to believe that a well-bred Victorian woman who was a virgin at the beginning of the novel would indulge in, a matters of days after losing her virginity, some of the more kinky sex acts described in the book. The author's style turned me off from reading any of her other books.
The author write like this.
She writes one simple passive sentence paragraph.
Then she leaves a big space and writes another sentence.
Her style of writing requires you to read a sentence over again to figure out what's going on, and the last sentence has to be much longer than the sentences that preceded it.
The hero in this book had every right to be troubled, but his characterization was so lacking that I didn't understand him well. There's also no heat or chemistry between the two main characters. While there are some explicit sex scenes, I didn't find most of them to be particularly erotic at all. The one really erotic scene involved two people other than the main characters. I'm all for smutty scenes, but it was very difficult to believe that a well-bred Victorian woman who was a virgin at the beginning of the novel would indulge in, a matters of days after losing her virginity, some of the more kinky sex acts described in the book. The author's style turned me off from reading any of her other books.
