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A review by shelleyjld
No Man Can Tame by Miranda Honfleur
3.0
I hover between 2 and 3 stars.
I echo other reviewers: this is like Grace Draven fan fiction for her book Radiance. It has many essential elements from Radiance but it is a poor copy of that book. It suffers from the comparison with Draven because where Draven’s characters were strong and complex and brave and their world fully developed, No Man Can Tame falls short.
The main heroine is immature and hyper-focused
on her goal of building a library. She has to be taken to task by her husband like a child to get her to look outside of her own self-involved obsession.
Also her title of the Beast Princess is unfulfilled. She’s a brat, spoiled and selfish and lashing out in tiny insignificant ways against the patriarchal structure but she never does anything beastly. She wears an outfit that isn’t appropriate and then she does that again. And when she wears an inappropriate dress to her wedding, she goes on and on about how her statement will change things so that future girls won’t be used as pawns in arranged marriages but there’s zero evidence that she did anything other than embarrass herself and her father and her future husband.
Overall, our heroine is silly and immature and though she becomes less selfish, she never seems to really seem like a grown up.
Veron seems super nice and very mature. I felt bad that he was saddled with this girl.
The overall impression is one of insta love despite that we watch them fall in love. It is not “insta” technically but it feels that way because the characters and plot and scenario never feel very deep.
I get why people DNF’ed this book. It’s good for a distraction in between books but overall I’d rather read Radiance again. It’s far, far superior to this imitator
I echo other reviewers: this is like Grace Draven fan fiction for her book Radiance. It has many essential elements from Radiance but it is a poor copy of that book. It suffers from the comparison with Draven because where Draven’s characters were strong and complex and brave and their world fully developed, No Man Can Tame falls short.
The main heroine is immature and hyper-focused
on her goal of building a library. She has to be taken to task by her husband like a child to get her to look outside of her own self-involved obsession.
Also her title of the Beast Princess is unfulfilled. She’s a brat, spoiled and selfish and lashing out in tiny insignificant ways against the patriarchal structure but she never does anything beastly. She wears an outfit that isn’t appropriate and then she does that again. And when she wears an inappropriate dress to her wedding, she goes on and on about how her statement will change things so that future girls won’t be used as pawns in arranged marriages but there’s zero evidence that she did anything other than embarrass herself and her father and her future husband.
Overall, our heroine is silly and immature and though she becomes less selfish, she never seems to really seem like a grown up.
Veron seems super nice and very mature. I felt bad that he was saddled with this girl.
The overall impression is one of insta love despite that we watch them fall in love. It is not “insta” technically but it feels that way because the characters and plot and scenario never feel very deep.
I get why people DNF’ed this book. It’s good for a distraction in between books but overall I’d rather read Radiance again. It’s far, far superior to this imitator