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Chargement... Once Upon a Towerpar Eloisa James
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I enjoyed this book very much, but I did feel like the tower conceit was an aftermarket add-on -- like she had a great story, great characters and just couldn't figure out how to resolve it without an aritficial nod to fairy tale. It didn't hurt the story significantly, but I can't say that I think it really added to it either. This story really seemed to focus on the 'struggle' aspect of their relationship. I don't need things to be all smooth sailing, there are definitely hurdles to relationships! But still, the concerns started pretty early in the story and didn't resolve until just before the end. So rather than basking in the flourishing of new love, I instead spent the majority of the time feeling a bit pained for them. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: Once upon a time... A duke fell in love Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar, Duke of Kinross, values order and self-control above all else. So when he meets a lady as serene as she is beautiful, he promptly asks for her hand in marriage. With a lady Edieâ??whose passionate temperament is the opposite of sereneâ??had such a high fever at her own debut ball that she didn't notice anyone, not even the notoriously elusive Duke of Kinross. When her father accepts his offer... she panics. And when their marriage night isn't all it could be, she pretends. In a tower. But Edie's inability to hide her feelings makes pretending impossible, and when their marriage implodes, she retreats to a towerâ??locking Gowan out. Now Gowan faces his greatest challenge. Neither commands nor reason work with his spirited young bride. How can he convince her to give him the keys to the tower... When she already has the keys to his he Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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My biggest beef with this book is the climax. Their bad sex has reached a boiling point and... the things the hero says to her... are so reprehensible that I can barely wrap my mind around them. No matter how heated the moment, people in love don't say the meanest things they can think of to each other. Yes, you have the power to cut someone down, but name-calling, saying they'd make a terrible parent... I don't want to give too much away, but he says the worst things. There's no coming back from that! No one truly in love says those things! This. Is not. Healthy!
Then, pouty McScotsman runs away and stays away from weeks, but it's okay because after fishing for 3 days, he realizes he still lusts for his wife and calls that love. But then he spends all his time dilly-dallying up north just to build suspense. After the big fight, the obstacles keeping them apart were such laughable straw men. Then, James TELLS us she loves him back. Why? Because she still feels like crap a couple weeks after their fight. That's called grief, lady. It's normal.
Seriously, the hero should've been the villain. It would've been a great setup to showcase a real and true love with the man who wouldn't betray her in a heated argument. Yes, couples can fight and sometimes it feels like it's over, but their marriage is broken. No amount of apologizing or orgasms can change that. But, according to James, that's all it takes. Even though I knew it wasn't going to happen, I wish the heroine ran away to Italy like she said she would. She wasn't entirely blameless in this situation, but she didn't pretend to be someone she wasn't. The one thing the hero was right about was that he put her on a pedestal and fell in love with the woman he imagined her to be. Again, he'd make a great antagonist.
There are so many problems with this book, too many to list here. I don't recommend this book to anyone, unless you want to rant with me. If you want to read about highlanders and couples who struggle through real issues, read Michelle Willingham. Her books are true romance. Not this trash. ( )