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A Loving Scoundrel
by Johanna Lindsey
*SBTB Quarterly Challenge - August 1. Dog Days of Summer: Read a book where a character owns a pet. Heroine has a pet rat.*
Johanna Lindsey frequently skirts the line of acceptable consent in her books (or in the case of [b:A Pirate's Love|724994|A Pirate's Love|Johanna Lindsey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1293624669s/724994.jpg|1353276] and the "I will rape you" hero, backflips over the line), but I just can't quit her!
This book has some very dodgy themes, even for being written in the early noughties. The first time the couple hooks up, she's quite drunk. And this is after multiple times he's tricked her into sexual situations after multiple refusals for becoming his mistress.
The B plot features a girl who spreads false accusations that the hero "seduced" her, in order to force him into marriage. And the scheme to counter this is basically to slut shame her into admitting that she's still a virgin. I'm not even going to try to unpack that.
I did really like the heroine in this book. She had a great personality and gumption. She also knows what she wants. The hero was completely bland; his only characteristic was that he was hot. Oh and sexual assault.
Will all of this stop me from reading more of this series? No, because I'm a glutton for punishment.
Johanna Lindsey frequently skirts the line of acceptable consent in her books (or in the case of [b:A Pirate's Love|724994|A Pirate's Love|Johanna Lindsey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1293624669s/724994.jpg|1353276] and the "I will rape you" hero, backflips over the line), but I just can't quit her!
This book has some very dodgy themes, even for being written in the early noughties. The first time the couple hooks up, she's quite drunk. And this is after multiple times he's tricked her into sexual situations after multiple refusals for becoming his mistress.
The B plot features a girl who spreads false accusations that the hero "seduced" her, in order to force him into marriage. And the scheme to counter this is basically to slut shame her into admitting that she's still a virgin. I'm not even going to try to unpack that.
I did really like the heroine in this book. She had a great personality and gumption. She also knows what she wants. The hero was completely bland; his only characteristic was that he was hot. Oh and sexual assault.
Will all of this stop me from reading more of this series? No, because I'm a glutton for punishment.