A review by mskennedyreads
His at Night by Sherry Thomas

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So this is the last book for the Spies Discord book club. I read all three in the series, and literally each one is an amazing heroine with an absolute garbage human being "hero." 

Seriously. The heroes all hate their heroines and they all seek to humiliate and degrade the heroines via coercive sex.

Vere didn't deserve forgiveness from friends, family, or his wife. He loves to punish people for perceived slights. He's selfish, immature, petty, ableist, misogynistic, hypocritical, judgemental, and vengeful. He is pretty r*pey to boot. Literally two of their three sexual encounters are r*pe. And after the third he treats her like dirt. After seeing her get beat by her uncle, he deliberately physically intimidates her because he loves to "torment her." He constantly hates himself got being attracted to her and hates her for liking him, calling her Eve - characterized as a deliberately deceitful femme fatale - more than once, contrasted by the Madonna imaginary companion he constantly compares her to. 

Literally none of this is a romance.

And at the end, his sob story past isn't enough to earn my sympathy - compared to what Ellisande had lived with her entire life, he had a cake walk.

The traumatic brain injury played for laughs is deeply uncomfortable, ableist, and messed up, plus a really really weak plot point.

Vere's utter irredeemable trash.

Going to take a break from Sherry Thomas for a while. I don't even ever want to read a book by the authors she mentions in her acknowledgments. Ugh.