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elizabethlk 's review for:
The Stranger I Married
by Sylvia Day
I wanted to like this, I really did. A lot of it was entertaining, but it became really difficult to fully enjoy.
I thought it was a good length, and the writing was decent enough. I did become attached to the characters, and I did want to know what happened next. It was suitably steamy. I might have given this a three or four star rating if not for the things that I didn't enjoy.
As for those less enjoyable aspects, I will admit first and foremost that the more rape-y aspects put me off. A lot. It's hard to enjoy the sex scenes when she's all but physically fighting him off. Even the secondary plot was guilty of kidnap instead of conversation. Moments like these took me out of the book, and it took time to get back into it after. As much as I did enjoy the overall plot, I feel like parts of it got to be a bit empty, like there should have been more meat in places. I found myself losing interest in anything from the story to the sex as the book progressed.
There were things to like about this book, and the parts that I enjoyed were things I enjoyed a lot. But the things I didn't enjoy either pulled me out of the story altogether, or had me wishing it would just move along. I previously enjoyed Sylvia Day's works more than this, and I'm disappointed that this one didn't exactly knock my socks off.
I thought it was a good length, and the writing was decent enough. I did become attached to the characters, and I did want to know what happened next. It was suitably steamy. I might have given this a three or four star rating if not for the things that I didn't enjoy.
As for those less enjoyable aspects, I will admit first and foremost that the more rape-y aspects put me off. A lot. It's hard to enjoy the sex scenes when she's all but physically fighting him off. Even the secondary plot was guilty of kidnap instead of conversation. Moments like these took me out of the book, and it took time to get back into it after. As much as I did enjoy the overall plot, I feel like parts of it got to be a bit empty, like there should have been more meat in places. I found myself losing interest in anything from the story to the sex as the book progressed.
There were things to like about this book, and the parts that I enjoyed were things I enjoyed a lot. But the things I didn't enjoy either pulled me out of the story altogether, or had me wishing it would just move along. I previously enjoyed Sylvia Day's works more than this, and I'm disappointed that this one didn't exactly knock my socks off.