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ladylothlorien's review against another edition
This book is SO HOT that I kept ignoring some of the things that were bothering me, but I finally had to give up. The slut shaming just got worse and worse. It's not just the hockey players (including the hero) and the hockey "groupies" but the heroine also slut shames herself too.
And then there is the hero who is portrayed as "persistent" when he floods the heroine with gifts, calls, and texts AND THEN SHOWS UP AT HER WORK UNANNOUNCED AND LOCKS HER IN A CONFERENCE ROOM WITH HIM MOMENTS BEFORE A WORK MEETING. The heroine has not told him where she works, he has Facebook stalked her and finds a picture of her at her workplace on her brother's FB. Oh and he emails her at her work email because he thinks that is less "stalkery" than sending her a message on FB. O_O The justification for this is that the heroine believes an inaccurate story (that the hero never publicly refuted when given the opportunity) about the hero's promiscuity...so we're back to the slut shaming again.
A lot of the time I can accept behavior from characters that would not be okay in the real world, but I found the hero's "persistence" just too much. There were so many other ways that the hero could have handled the situation and the lengths he went to were just a series of red flags.
And then there is the hero who is portrayed as "persistent" when he floods the heroine with gifts, calls, and texts AND THEN SHOWS UP AT HER WORK UNANNOUNCED AND LOCKS HER IN A CONFERENCE ROOM WITH HIM MOMENTS BEFORE A WORK MEETING. The heroine has not told him where she works, he has Facebook stalked her and finds a picture of her at her workplace on her brother's FB. Oh and he emails her at her work email because he thinks that is less "stalkery" than sending her a message on FB. O_O The justification for this is that the heroine believes an inaccurate story (that the hero never publicly refuted when given the opportunity) about the hero's promiscuity...so we're back to the slut shaming again.
A lot of the time I can accept behavior from characters that would not be okay in the real world, but I found the hero's "persistence" just too much. There were so many other ways that the hero could have handled the situation and the lengths he went to were just a series of red flags.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Misogyny, Stalking, and Toxic relationship
So much slut shaming
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