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maseven 's review for:
An Independent Wife
by Linda Howard
Yeah no, I’m leaving this halfway read because I see where this is going and I don’t like it one bit.
This is not a romance, but the tragic story of a narcissistic and dangerous and abusive stalker-bully-hero who ruins the heroine’s life and literally doesn’t take “no” for an answer.
I quote from when they have sex: “she hadn’t tried to fight him off, she’d only said “no” and of course it had been a waste of breath for all the attention Rhy had paid to it”. Yup, that’s rape, buddy.
She is forced to take him on in her life and give up everything else. I’m sure by the end of the book there’s some amazing revelation that “oh, he loves her so much” and she gets everything she ever wanted but that makes it all the worst to me because it’s obvious his personality is just straight up disturbing and oh, man! there are so many red flags I can’t even start to count ‘em. When he’s done bullying and harassing her she is left with no personality whatsoever, of course she’ll believe whatever he tells her.
These older romances often don’t age well but this is fucked up even for the early eighties - FYI the book was written in ‘82.
A review to this said “I wouldn’t want to be stuck with one of LH’s 80s’ men” and I couldn’t agree more.
This is not a romance, but the tragic story of a narcissistic and dangerous and abusive stalker-bully-hero who ruins the heroine’s life and literally doesn’t take “no” for an answer.
I quote from when they have sex: “she hadn’t tried to fight him off, she’d only said “no” and of course it had been a waste of breath for all the attention Rhy had paid to it”. Yup, that’s rape, buddy.
She is forced to take him on in her life and give up everything else. I’m sure by the end of the book there’s some amazing revelation that “oh, he loves her so much” and she gets everything she ever wanted but that makes it all the worst to me because it’s obvious his personality is just straight up disturbing and oh, man! there are so many red flags I can’t even start to count ‘em. When he’s done bullying and harassing her she is left with no personality whatsoever, of course she’ll believe whatever he tells her.
These older romances often don’t age well but this is fucked up even for the early eighties - FYI the book was written in ‘82.
A review to this said “I wouldn’t want to be stuck with one of LH’s 80s’ men” and I couldn’t agree more.