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A review by rhodered
Irresistible You by Kate Meader
DNF at 46%. It's a fine book, just not the book for me. It's somewhat feminist and there are good looking, men with great, decent personalities in it. Plus, the hero has fantastic, living parents (the heroine's were crappy and both died early.)
So why the DNF?
On the surface, it's because she's tiny and he's huge. Which always annoys me. Plus, the whole New Orleans guy with the French accent doesn't do it for me. Also, the heart of the book is all about the sexual tension. Endless scenes of sexual tension. So, it feels less about two people falling in love than two bodies falling in lust.
I'd like to see more scenes of her being a boss, running the team. As it is I know more about her clothing choices than her career aside from the fact that we're told she knows hockey stats and deals w/ sexism. If you're in this for competence porn, set the book aside.
On the feminism front, this is sex positive and she's the team boss, and the hero is proud of her for it. Yet, under that, the relationship is not an equal one.
He is essentially happy. He makes a home wherever he is, with gumbo on the stove and piles of friends dropping by. He works hard on maintaining close, loving relationships with his parents, siblings and nieces. He's got a great plan for his post-hockey life involving love and family. He is emotionally centered and whole.
She's the opposite. She's anxious, lonely, stressed. She's rattling around in a McMansion she inherited that's way too big for her. She only seems to have one friend she likes. Her few family relationships are half-formed, with old wounds and distance. She suffers from PTSD from an abusive past relationship. She is striving, but it feels like she's holding it all together with tense threads instead of joy the way he does.
So, basically he's set up to be the prince who will rescue the princess in the tower. And I'm not up for that.
So why the DNF?
On the surface, it's because she's tiny and he's huge. Which always annoys me. Plus, the whole New Orleans guy with the French accent doesn't do it for me. Also, the heart of the book is all about the sexual tension. Endless scenes of sexual tension. So, it feels less about two people falling in love than two bodies falling in lust.
I'd like to see more scenes of her being a boss, running the team. As it is I know more about her clothing choices than her career aside from the fact that we're told she knows hockey stats and deals w/ sexism. If you're in this for competence porn, set the book aside.
On the feminism front, this is sex positive and she's the team boss, and the hero is proud of her for it. Yet, under that, the relationship is not an equal one.
He is essentially happy. He makes a home wherever he is, with gumbo on the stove and piles of friends dropping by. He works hard on maintaining close, loving relationships with his parents, siblings and nieces. He's got a great plan for his post-hockey life involving love and family. He is emotionally centered and whole.
She's the opposite. She's anxious, lonely, stressed. She's rattling around in a McMansion she inherited that's way too big for her. She only seems to have one friend she likes. Her few family relationships are half-formed, with old wounds and distance. She suffers from PTSD from an abusive past relationship. She is striving, but it feels like she's holding it all together with tense threads instead of joy the way he does.
So, basically he's set up to be the prince who will rescue the princess in the tower. And I'm not up for that.