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A review by helloitsjonesie
The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn
Did not finish book. Stopped at 16%.
Even someone that’s colorblind could see the numerous red flags in this book. Its gross.
Allow me to list them for you:
#1: They meet when Miranda 10… Turner is 19.
#2: His mother asks him, a 19 year old man, to escort her, a 10 year old girl, home. Alone.
#3: While the conversation between them is mostly innocent, it’s during this that she decides she is irrevocably in love with him and will never love another. She’s 10. It’s weird.
#4: Chapter 1 starts with Turner’s cheating, lying wife’s funeral. A funeral attended by Miranda. She was also at their wedding. And guess what? She’s still in love with him.
#5: Miscarriage is a frequently used plot device.
#6: Later that night, after his wife’s funeral, he roughly grabs, kisses, and gropes her without her consent and then proceeds to laugh at her and say that he doesn’t love her.
#7: Does she tell anyone like she rightly should have? No. She “doesn’t want his family thinking differently of him.” (I cannot roll my eyes enough.)
This was all in the prologue and chapter 1. I read reviews to help decide if I should continue but it only got worse and worse so I to DNF. From what I gathered (and I may be wrong), the story continues like this: Eventually, Turner knocks Miranda up. Once he learns she’s pregnant, he disappears for 6 weeks- no contact or anything. When he does reappear, it’s in time for her to miscarry. How does he feel about it? Relived, of course. Somehow, they end up married anyway though it’s a loveless marriage. They then repeat a cycle of: She tries to get him to open up and be vulnerable > He clams up and acts like a dick > She gets her feelings hurt > She’s miserable. Then, she ends up pregnant again. And from what it sounds, it’s only after she has carried and delivered his child that he decides he *does* in fact love her. Oh, and over the course of the book, he uses physical strength to threaten and contain the women in his life. (Ex: Wrist grabbing/ squeezing to the point of pain, pushes and holds his sister against a wall, exc.)
My understanding of how the book ended could be wrong but I tried my best to get the gist of it.
Overall, I wish I hadn’t wasted an hour of my life on this book.
Allow me to list them for you:
#1: They meet when Miranda 10… Turner is 19.
#2: His mother asks him, a 19 year old man, to escort her, a 10 year old girl, home. Alone.
#3: While the conversation between them is mostly innocent, it’s during this that she decides she is irrevocably in love with him and will never love another. She’s 10. It’s weird.
#4: Chapter 1 starts with Turner’s cheating, lying wife’s funeral. A funeral attended by Miranda. She was also at their wedding. And guess what? She’s still in love with him.
#5: Miscarriage is a frequently used plot device.
#6: Later that night, after his wife’s funeral, he roughly grabs, kisses, and gropes her without her consent and then proceeds to laugh at her and say that he doesn’t love her.
#7: Does she tell anyone like she rightly should have? No. She “doesn’t want his family thinking differently of him.” (I cannot roll my eyes enough.)
This was all in the prologue and chapter 1. I read reviews to help decide if I should continue but it only got worse and worse so I to DNF. From what I gathered (and I may be wrong), the story continues like this: Eventually, Turner knocks Miranda up. Once he learns she’s pregnant, he disappears for 6 weeks- no contact or anything. When he does reappear, it’s in time for her to miscarry. How does he feel about it? Relived, of course. Somehow, they end up married anyway though it’s a loveless marriage. They then repeat a cycle of: She tries to get him to open up and be vulnerable > He clams up and acts like a dick > She gets her feelings hurt > She’s miserable. Then, she ends up pregnant again. And from what it sounds, it’s only after she has carried and delivered his child that he decides he *does* in fact love her. Oh, and over the course of the book, he uses physical strength to threaten and contain the women in his life. (Ex: Wrist grabbing/ squeezing to the point of pain, pushes and holds his sister against a wall, exc.)
My understanding of how the book ended could be wrong but I tried my best to get the gist of it.
Overall, I wish I hadn’t wasted an hour of my life on this book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault