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Crimson Rapture (1986)

by Jennifer Horsman(Favorite Author)

3.12 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0821718053 (ISBN13: 9780821718056)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Zebra

review 1: I can't with the hero. Read in modern days, his attitude towards what constitutes as rape is both baffling and utterly ridiculous. There is glorious irony in the fact that he rapes the heroine, but condemns another person if they attempt to as well. The gang rape was extremely distasteful and the fact that it was couched in terms of revenge doesn't redeem it at all. In fact, the whole treatment of Carolyn Something-or-Other was exceedingly disgusting. Was she a murdering bitch? Yes. Did she deserve it? Not really. Maybe I'm warped, but killing her off would have been a kinder fate. In a nutshell, the entire book screams hypocrisy and if you want to read it and enjoy it, it would be best to turn off your brain. Also: what is with the reunion? She left him because she couldn... more't stomach his behavior (and rightly so), but at the mere hint of his anger, ardor or manly fart, she turns into mush at his feet? She automatically hands over the get-out-of-jail-free card? I forget the details, but honestly, I wish she'd just take the annulment and raise her son into someone who isn't a rapist bastard. It'd defeat the purpose of a romance book, but hell, I'm certain that would have been ten times more satisfying to read. I love romance and angst. More dated books are usually chock-full of them and I usually love it. But if it's in the form of rape-happy heroes and heroines that were established as shy but are little more than sexual objects, then we should keep them in a museum for future writers as an example of what romance shouldn't be.
review 2: So freaking sad! Ok, not the saddest book that I have read but still, very emotional. I had a bit of a problem with Christine if only because I'm so logical and while I know that many of my reactions would have been different than her's. That said, Christine was about 17 when this book started and up until her father died she had been sheltered to an extreme. I did think that Justin could have saved himself a lot of trouble however if he had just sat Christine down and explained why he did what he did, I know that that goes against macho man code but it would have solved whole lot. I did however love how he encouraged Christine in painting, pretty awesome of him. I was quite pleased with the end result so 4 stars! less

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