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I mean, aside from the title.
So, I picked up a romance novel up at the library yesterday, eagerly anticipating angsty h/c goodness (the back page summary promised me that the hero had spent years as a captive during the crusades and was therefore all tortured and angst-ridden), only to be met with dreadful writing and two literally jaw-dropping instances of WTF.
( sexual assault is not romantic. Especially not when your novel sucks )
I OTP Spike/Buffy and Hank/Jan and I've read that marquesate and vashtan epic about the Russian and British special ops guys in Afghanistan about three times. I'm perfectly willing to be sold on the imaginary, non-stupid redemption-via-suffering and earning back her trust plot I wish this book had had. But alas, I got "orgasm = retroactive consent" instead. I'm going to go read Special Forces again for some nice, cathartic vengance and a fucked up relationship that's actually acknowledged as fucked up.
So, I picked up a romance novel up at the library yesterday, eagerly anticipating angsty h/c goodness (the back page summary promised me that the hero had spent years as a captive during the crusades and was therefore all tortured and angst-ridden), only to be met with dreadful writing and two literally jaw-dropping instances of WTF.
( sexual assault is not romantic. Especially not when your novel sucks )
I OTP Spike/Buffy and Hank/Jan and I've read that marquesate and vashtan epic about the Russian and British special ops guys in Afghanistan about three times. I'm perfectly willing to be sold on the imaginary, non-stupid redemption-via-suffering and earning back her trust plot I wish this book had had. But alas, I got "orgasm = retroactive consent" instead. I'm going to go read Special Forces again for some nice, cathartic vengance and a fucked up relationship that's actually acknowledged as fucked up.
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