![]() One might have forgiven James the terrible plot if it hadn’t been for the miserable dullness of her prose. The two fall in love and after she is kidnapped many times and runs away many times and after they avoid exchanging basic information till the very end, they finally live happily ever after. Because playboys who don’t remember the name of the woman they slept with last night mustĪlways get a virgin as gift. Alessia Demachi is a penniless and pretty (of course) Albanian woman who escapes sex traffickers and ends up in London as Trevelyan’s housekeeper. Maxim Trevelyan is a rich and handsome man (of course) who’s just inherited an Earldom. She: “He is so attractive!” He: “I’m enthralled.” That level of banal.Īnd what’s the story such as it is? It really doesn’t warrant a spoiler alert, but skip this para if you’re dying to read the book. And even that happens only after some 200 pages of unbearable banality. Yes, there’s lots of sex, but of a sickly, swooning kind. If you come to this book expecting S&M, forget it. ![]() But for some inexplicable reason we’re expected to take James seriously. ![]() Remember, M&Bs are not marketed - they’re just formulaic assembly-line churn-outs. One of the first reactions was a sort of disbelief that any self-respecting publisher would put this kind of drivel on sale and follow it up with serious marketing effort. ![]() ![]() The queen of soft porn but her latest effort of 512 pages of unadulterated bilge left me feeling blue in entirely different ways. ![]()
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