A Vow of Obligation by Lynne Graham
First - Was I the only one who realized that the 'Mills & Boon Modern' cover (below) is utilizing the same picture as Jill Myles's upcoming Sunlight? No? Good, I didn't think so.
Anyway, I'm so very tired of Lynne Graham's books but, then again, I must be a sucker for punishment because I keep reading them - I read one or two good ones and decided that she must have some more in store. Wrong. Lynne Graham constantly, constantly, writes heroines who start out promising then transform into weak, pathetic women hanging on for the next fix of a kind of man that never shows up. Her women always bend for the men, compromising everything and breaching their morals for nothing. The men tend to be too strong, bulldozing over everyone and owning the morals of alley cats. I mean, LG writes men who think nothing of cheating (and some who feel as though they bestow honors when they don't), who think nothing of constantly insulting their partners and meeting other women for private trysts - I mean, are we in the 1800s? I've read one where the man accidentally got the heroine preggers then went on to impregnate the b***h who the heroine was feeling insecure over! I just don't understand how a woman can possibly write continuously of these pathetic females and I'm no feminist. In this book, the girl gets fooled by her friend, gets pregnant by the hero and falls in love while the hero deceives her by displaying an illicit, loving, "affair" (I don't want to give away the 'dramatic' twist) with a married actress - a hero who is, hypocritically, so possessive that he can hardly tolerate another man looking at the heroine while they are even only pretending to be engaged and hardly know each other. I'll probably continue reading her books, because the ones that were good were very good, but I don't know how much more I can take before I assert my freedom of speech further and compose a strongly worded letter to send to Ms. Lynne Graham herself.
Anyway, I'm so very tired of Lynne Graham's books but, then again, I must be a sucker for punishment because I keep reading them - I read one or two good ones and decided that she must have some more in store. Wrong. Lynne Graham constantly, constantly, writes heroines who start out promising then transform into weak, pathetic women hanging on for the next fix of a kind of man that never shows up. Her women always bend for the men, compromising everything and breaching their morals for nothing. The men tend to be too strong, bulldozing over everyone and owning the morals of alley cats. I mean, LG writes men who think nothing of cheating (and some who feel as though they bestow honors when they don't), who think nothing of constantly insulting their partners and meeting other women for private trysts - I mean, are we in the 1800s? I've read one where the man accidentally got the heroine preggers then went on to impregnate the b***h who the heroine was feeling insecure over! I just don't understand how a woman can possibly write continuously of these pathetic females and I'm no feminist. In this book, the girl gets fooled by her friend, gets pregnant by the hero and falls in love while the hero deceives her by displaying an illicit, loving, "affair" (I don't want to give away the 'dramatic' twist) with a married actress - a hero who is, hypocritically, so possessive that he can hardly tolerate another man looking at the heroine while they are even only pretending to be engaged and hardly know each other. I'll probably continue reading her books, because the ones that were good were very good, but I don't know how much more I can take before I assert my freedom of speech further and compose a strongly worded letter to send to Ms. Lynne Graham herself.
( No offense to Lynne Graham but I like it better on Sunlight - not that I'm biased ;] )
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From making his bed... On a mission to steal Navarre Cazier's laptop to save a fellow chambermaid's reputation, Tawny Blake is caught red-handed! Blushing brighter than her flame-coloured hair, she's sure she'll be fired. Then Cazier presents her with a shocking proposition.... To lying in it! The infamous billionaire needs to stop the prying media digging into his scandalous past, and Tawny is the perfect diversion. The seduction of society beauties has always come effortlessly to Navarre, yet getting feisty Tawny to wear his ring, even if just in public, could be his greatest challenge yet!"
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