ali-hardy33

I'm not a big fan of Lindsey's, although I like her books enough to read whichever ones I get my hands on. In this one, you've got Tanya, a princess who was smuggled out of her country due to an ongoing blood feud that wiped out the rest of her family. Stefan, the son of the king who took over after her own father died, is her betrothed. He reluctantly comes to America looking for her, but her caretakers died when she was a baby and she got misplaced. He finds her running a tavern in Mississippi. I liked some aspects of this book. I loved the "setup" and have always enjoyed these rags-to-riches stories. However, my enjoyment was kind of ruined by just how disrespectful Stefan and his men are of Tanya. She is given no choice but to leave with them (they literally, seriously threaten to gag her and put her in a crate if she gives them trouble), and because of where they found her, they all from the start assume that she's a whore and often throw it in her face. Stefan finds her so attractive that he usually restrains himself only by avoiding her and by drinking heavily. A "real" hero should be able to stay sober without fear of ravishing his pretty prisoner. Tanya, on the other hand, just like all Lindsey's irrational heroines, is wildly attracted to Stefan even though he's really not very respectful of her and has violently kidnapped her from her home. Her attraction to him, portrayed as a natural and healthy thing, offended me.

2022-11-14 16:36