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Second Thyme Around
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This author was recommended to me by a fellow romance reader, and I appreciate the recommendation because you never know if you are missing out on a writer that you will love.
I did not love Second Thyme Around. It's competently written, but the heroine is a drudge and slob who is nonetheless gorgeous (but she would be even more so if she would just let the girls from Ronnie's health farm provide her with some beauty services!). The hero is a monster and a liar who blames the heroine for the fact that he cheated on her when they were married. It's right there on page 227:
"How can I possibly have anything to do with it? I loved you, I was faithful to you. How can it have been my fault, in any way?"
"You didn't fight back, Perdita. You didn't demand that I was faithful, you didn't curse me for bringing colleagues home unexpectedly. You let me get away with murder....If you hadn't put up with so much bad behaviour, I might have stopped behaving badly. You should have thrown me out when I came home smelling of other women, made me see what I stood to lose by abusing our relationship."
No. Just no.
I guess we are just supposed to go along with the assumption that great smoldering attractive chefs have tempers but are worth it. We are told but not shown that they exchange a lot of sparkling dialog and burn up the screen when they are cast together in a British cooking TV show. They almost have rage sex when she threatens him with a knife and then bites him, and she wonders "if he would bite her back or knock her senseless with the back of his hand." (p. 153) He then threatens to slap her if she doesn't stop, and they kiss "as if they hated each other," but apparently we are supposed to admire his restraint because he stops them from actually having sexual intercourse. I am not a fan of rage sex (or almost rage sex).
Not an author I'm likely to read again. Sorry, my friend. :)
I did not love Second Thyme Around. It's competently written, but the heroine is a drudge and slob who is nonetheless gorgeous (but she would be even more so if she would just let the girls from Ronnie's health farm provide her with some beauty services!). The hero is a monster and a liar who blames the heroine for the fact that he cheated on her when they were married. It's right there on page 227:
"How can I possibly have anything to do with it? I loved you, I was faithful to you. How can it have been my fault, in any way?"
"You didn't fight back, Perdita. You didn't demand that I was faithful, you didn't curse me for bringing colleagues home unexpectedly. You let me get away with murder....If you hadn't put up with so much bad behaviour, I might have stopped behaving badly. You should have thrown me out when I came home smelling of other women, made me see what I stood to lose by abusing our relationship."
No. Just no.
I guess we are just supposed to go along with the assumption that great smoldering attractive chefs have tempers but are worth it. We are told but not shown that they exchange a lot of sparkling dialog and burn up the screen when they are cast together in a British cooking TV show. They almost have rage sex when she threatens him with a knife and then bites him, and she wonders "if he would bite her back or knock her senseless with the back of his hand." (p. 153) He then threatens to slap her if she doesn't stop, and they kiss "as if they hated each other," but apparently we are supposed to admire his restraint because he stops them from actually having sexual intercourse. I am not a fan of rage sex (or almost rage sex).
Not an author I'm likely to read again. Sorry, my friend. :)
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