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Dear Ms. Hubbard:
When I first started this book, I thought it had a lot of promise. It featured a romance author heroine and had kind of an insider’s tone to the story which I thought romance readers would get a kick out of. But then it took a turn, a nose dive even, resulting in one of the most unlikeable heroines I have read in a long time. I know that we women are accused of being harder on other women and I asked myself this question as I wrote the review because we essentially have a role reversal in this book. The heroine is the bitter wealthy asshole and the hero is the doormat. In some books, I can stomach this combination. It’s fairly prevalent in Harlequin Presents books. What makes the asshole character acceptable is some recognition in the end that the character is being an asshole, some kind of redemption. This never happens in this story. In fact, the story is written as if the asshole is the victim and the doormat is the one constantly at fault. It was a strange lack of self …
I bought this book because I’ve been wanting to read you for a long time but never got around to it. I actually have no reason because I think I even have received a few of your books for free. I think I believed that your books were more suspense-y and not very romance-y and I like the mix. Well, honestly I like books with a good dollop of romance.
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