• Paperback
• 512
• The Wolf and the Dove
• Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
• English
• 09 April 2020
• 9780380007783

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I think there is a point in most women s lives where they have read trashy romance novels For me it was my junior and senior years in high school and my freshmen year of college I had a friend in high school who actually had to hide such books in her underwear drawer Her mother would ve flipped out We pretty much read them because of the trashy romance novel sex scenes Except for the Guardian Angel He read Harleuin Romances I m not sure whyAnd thenAnd then I read one too many where the heroine was raped by the romantic lead Admittedly these were books published in the late 70s and early 80s used bookstores sold them cheap There was one called The Pirate s Doxy or something like that Poor Miss Virgin gets mistaken for a prostitute when she is really a seamstress gets taken aboard a ship because the captain needs a hooker to get over his ex He rapes Miss Virgin believing that she was playacting He s really sorry and they fall in love SAY WHATIt s amazing how that can just turn your stomach You can no doubt see why I stopped reading trashy romance novels The fact that I minored in history also undoubtedly had something to do with it Who wants to read a trashy romance about Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn when you know how the relationship ends Except I didn t really stop reading them I just call it urban fantasy and the heroine can turn into werewolf or a demon or whatever so it has fantastic elements though sometimes less sex scenes The women tend to kick butt however I also re read Outlander this summerThere has to be something about romance books that speak to women and at least one male Maybe it is the sex scenes especially with the younger readers Maybe it is the prefect guy the romantic lead though I doubt this last considering how many rapes seem to occur I understand the whole rape fantasy psyche idea but that is different than describing a real rape isn t it Even in UF you can see this rape fantasy being overplayed and never really examined for instance in the later Anita Blake novels though who is the victim and who is the rapist is sometimes unclear Maybe these types of rape romance books are written by men for men This would also explain Lifetime the channel of women in trouble needing rescuingMaybe women dig romance books because such books are our version of James Bond This theory would also apply to soap operas Think about it Is James Bond really that realistic Can he really drink and shot straight Would all those women really want him and remember he wasn t always played by Connery or Craig Would a bad guy really reveal his plan before trying to kill Bond and walk out without making sure the super spy is dead All those women and no STDs or screaming babies Maybe romance books are a female version of Bond Here is the books say a man who is tamed by the love of a good women He becomes understanding and sympathetic as the love story progresses He s really good in bed He pleasures her not the other way around They are the perfect match at first sexually and then mentally and emotionally In romance books at least in some the woman does change the man she does have some power to do this Even in the Doxy book I cited above the rapist became nicer emotional She changes him by simply being who she is Sovereignty the Wife of Bath says is what women want maybe romance books offer a picture of that It s true that there are books that play with the standard cliches of romantic fiction Outlander for instance inverts the standard virgin and experienced roles as well the ages which is why I still like it While The Wolf and the Dove doesn t do this exactly I still have my copy I liked this book because there is no character rape There is a near rape and how this is not a rape is absolutely wonderfully explained It sounds weird but if you read the book you ll see The would be rapist is not the romantic lead but the villain There really is romance in the book and not simply sex I suppose to even call this book a trashy romance novel is doing it a slight injustice It is a romance novel a woman s story And for whatever reason something women like If you are thinking of reading a romance book this is a good one It doesn t insult women and is charming told The female character is also strong emotionally as is her mother Woodiwiss deals with the theme of the conuered and the conueror very well The book is something of an examination of these roles and therefore not a typical romance The Card Slingers of the Biloxi Royale rapture of the conueror's kissThe DoveFor the first time ever mighty Wulfgar has been vanuished and by a bold and beautiful princess of Saxon blood He must have. 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