Once again, excellent conversations that are pure brain candy for me. (what!?! the main characters... gasp!... have a conversation?!?...unheard of.) I thank you for that. What a nice change from the supadupa sex scenes that are shoehorned into all books of this line, which are... well, really boring. Characters actually thinking? Now _THAT_ is interesting!! And the plot of this one contains a variation on a theme that completely refreshes it into something completely different. Nicely played. Quit on page 55. Another case of "I will constantly obsess about this dilemma, but in a completely vague and abstract way so as to reveal NOTHING about it to the reader until probably five pages from the end of the book." If you want me to believe a character has an Insurmountable Problem, I'm going to need more information. Hide it from everybody else in the book. Have him lie to himself about it if you must. But the reader needs to know the truth to provide context for the character acting like a dumbass; without it, it appears simply a congenital affliction. Also another case of emotional remove. He does something and then he observes her reaction and then he has some trite physical symptom in response, but there is no PROCESSING of goings on to make them personally relevant or resonant. For all the TELLING me he's full of silent angst and she's been secretly in love with him forever and this marriage is a dream come true for her, there's no sense these people are actually FEELING these feelings. Sex should be pretty emotionally fraught (especially if one person is supposedly desperate to get an heir out of it and the other person is supposedly desperately in love as well as doing it for the first time), but when Sex Happens in Chapter Four, I almost missed it because I was snoozing through the chitchat about fashion and soap until being jarred alert by my own laughter upon reading, "It was too much, this lust for him; she was certain to forget herself." Honey, if you call anything that happened in the past 38 pages "lust," UR DOIN IT RONG. I got more excited than that when I found fresh cranberries in the produce department yesterday, and I've had to wait only ten months to get my hands on them and they don't fondle me back.
What do You think about Season For Scandal (2013)?
I was in a bit of mood when I read the last of this. Rating may change in the future.
—Crystal
Sweet and amusing. Good reading, guilty pleasure during a long winter afternoon.
—roz3005
