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En Un Long Corps A Corps (1979)

by Charlotte Lamb(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

286259055X (ISBN13: 9782862590554)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin

review 1: Simply awful. The heroine has issues with sex due to her abusive step father trying to rape her when she was 16, followed by a traumatic trial and her mother's death. Knowing this, the hero slaps her for supposedly leading him on and then turning him down.Three years ago, they were married to each other (hero didn't know about the attempted rape back then). He gets fed up with heroine freaking out about sex and tells her he is going to find another woman for the night. Heroine tries to kill herself. Hero responds by leaving her and hooking up with another woman in an attempt to make her jealous. Huh?! Your wife tries to commit suicide so you figure sleeping around will fix things?Jump three years ahead and now hero knows about the heroine's past, but is still absolutely ho... morerrendous to her, and still openly fooling around with other women to make her jealous.This was a horrendous book. I wish I could wipe it clean from my mind.
review 2: No Stars. A truly terrible book with an absolutely rotten hero!The H & H have been previously married but due to an attempted rape by her stepfather, the heroine was afraid of sex and the marriage broke down. The heroine's brother gets into gambling debt and she approaches her ex husband for the money. He agrees to give her 10,000 pounds if she will remarry him. He says he will own her for the rest of her life. They go on honeymoon. He treats the H like dirt. One minute he says that he wants to give the H time to adjust, the next he makes a pass at her and when she starts to resist, he hits her. He eventually stops and then admits he knows the reason for her fear. He does not apologise for hitting her. He is chronically jealous if any other man so much as says hello to her and seems to want to keep her locked up and not trust her outside the house. this does not make any sense as the story is based on the premise that the is afraid of sex and accordingly there is no real risk of betrayal. He then has sex with her. It hurts her because she is a virgin. However our creep feels no need to apologise and /or sympathise with the H and he displays zero empathy stating instead that he will have her whenever and wherever he wants from now on. The H meets the QC who cross examined her at her step father's trial and is confused by her emotions. The a -hole 'hero' is furious and jealous. he has sex with her again, which she actually enjoys ( i don't know how). Instead of thinking that this is great and that the marriage is on track, the a- hole creep then states that he has had enough of the H since she has submitted to him, that she will have to beg him forever more, that he hates her, that he intends to punish her for emasculating him for the 3 years of the divorce etc. The h tries to kill herself. The hero rescues her but is again just vile. The so called hero proceeds to controls the H's life. he tells her what she must wear at any given time, he makes her wear a bikini, go to dinner, what to wear at dinner, that she must dance with him etc. He threatens to beat her. They return to London. The H is not allowed to leave the house. they have dinner and then sex. Somehow in the middle of all the hatred they declare their mutual love. This was not a romance. The hero was a twisted hateful psycho and the heroine was a complete door mat. Neither was particularly likeable. I have a penchant for dominant and ruthless heros (eg Judith McNaught, Anne Stuart etc) but this guy was just awful. His hatred of the heroine was palpable and the reconciliation at the end was unbelievable. My lasting impression was that she would end up in Women's Aid at the end, after he beat the s*** out of her.Unremittingly Dreadful. less

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