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A review by cosmo_junk
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
1.0
tw sa, 2000s fantasy misogyny
2.5. my first dip into trashy romance for middle aged women. i watched the show before i read this and i gotta say, these characters are extremely annoying. especially simon. also the sex was so mid, like if you're gonna write smut then commit to the grind and SAY COCK.
for a book that was written in 2000 BY A WOMAN, this one sure includes a lot of misogynistic tropes (simon abusing the fact that he legally owns daphne, simon withholding information from daphne, which isn't so much sexist as it is literally abusive) and goes as far as to include a marital rape scene where daphne is the perpetrator, all a result of a highly dysfunctional relationship. anyway this books sucks due to horrible writing and weird idealization of what relationships should be.
2.5. my first dip into trashy romance for middle aged women. i watched the show before i read this and i gotta say, these characters are extremely annoying. especially simon. also the sex was so mid, like if you're gonna write smut then commit to the grind and SAY COCK.
for a book that was written in 2000 BY A WOMAN, this one sure includes a lot of misogynistic tropes (simon abusing the fact that he legally owns daphne, simon withholding information from daphne, which isn't so much sexist as it is literally abusive) and goes as far as to include a marital rape scene where daphne is the perpetrator, all a result of a highly dysfunctional relationship. anyway this books sucks due to horrible writing and weird idealization of what relationships should be.