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I've been lusting after this book for years because it had so many positive reviews, and people were saying it was like a bodice ripper of olde - and you guys know how much I love bodice rippers. Throw in an obsessive hero and a revenge theme, and I. Am. So. There. When this book had a price drop down to $3.49, I pounced. "Finally!" I thought. "Precious is mine!" I thought.

Post-reading, all I can say is feh.

***WARNING: SPOILERS***

CLAIMING THE COURTESAN is about Lord Kylemore (Crymore) and Verity (Very Dumb). Very Dumb is Crymore's mistress. They had a contract that stipulated that she could leave after a year, and all of his gifts would remain hers after their time was up. Crymore did not take the contract seriously and after a fight with his mom, he's like, "F U, Mom! You think you can boss me around? I'm going to marry my whore! That'll show you!"

But Crymore's mistress is tired of the lifestyle of the "soiled dove" and absconds with her belongings, selling all of her expensive gifts to live a life of anonymity in the countryside. Well, Crymore can't have that, can he? He pursues her, kidnaps her in the middle of the street after attempting to kill her brother (who he thinks is her lover), and then takes her away with him to his remote Scottish estate, where he proceeds to rape her nightly for daring to leave him before he said he was done.

Very Dumb makes a few token efforts at escape, but mostly there's talk of traitorous bodies and then she cuddles with him at night because Crymore has night terrors (daddy issues). I was not impressed. I was even less impressed when while running away from him yet again, he saves her from falling off a cliff and that's when she decides she loves him. I was even less impressed when Crymore decides he loves her too and is like, "Maybe now I can treat her to some consensual sex at last!" I'm like, "*****, that's not up to you! She decides if it's consensual you **********ing piece of ****. ****!!!" What makes this even more ridiculous is that while all this raping is going on, Crymore is beating him up, forcing himself to do it to keep up appearances, whining all the while that he's a nice guy, and how bad he feels that she pushed him to this and blah, blah blah.

Crymore is that super guy you have blocked on Tinder because in his profile he says "I'm a nice guy who's tired of the drama looking for a girl who doesn't play games" but the literal first thing he messages you is "Nice tits - DTF?" with a picture of his peen attached.

Anyway, this being a romance novel, Crymore and Very Dumb end up getting together and having teh sex0rs. But then Very Dumb decides that she can't be with him because it would shame his honor or something like that. So she flees him again - and who does she run into but Mommie Dearest, who beats up her brother (again - poor guy) and then announces gleefully that she's going to disfigure Verity and then have her gangbanged by her servants while she watches. And she's a little too excited by this, if you catch my drift, which makes it extraaaaa creepy. But don't worry, because Crymore is a stalker to the very end, and arrives just in time to put a stop to his mother, but not before saying, "F U, Mom! We're still getting married and you get to choose between Norfolk and the mental asylum!"

The end.

I really liked the beginning but I simply could not stomach the rest. I'm an avid reader of bodice rippers, so it's not the rape aspect that bothered me. It's that it was handled so badly, and with such disrespect to the characters. The author tried to make the rapist into a nice guy, and he didn't even really have to grovel - Very Dumb just decided that she loved him after all, which kind of makes this feel extra super creepy, because you know she probably just came down with Stockholm Syndrome after she was traumatized by all those near-death experiences and abuse. God, even the servants were complicit, saying, basically, "He's a nice guy! Deal with it!" when she told them what he was doing to her and begged them to help her escape. Yeah, no. This was not cool and I'm very disappoint.

Hopefully her other book, UNTOUCHED, is better.

1.5 out of 5 stars


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Claiming the Courtesan Avon Romantic Treasures Anna Campbell 9780061234910 Books Reviews

A Rake's Midnight Kiss unfolds in a far better way than the cursory blurb would have you expect. Sir Richard Harmsworth is, like his friends from book One in the Sons of Sin series, living down a life-long scandal involving his bastard birth. He's smooth and sublime, charming and gorgeous....all hiding the pain of the struggle living with society's censure over his bastardy. Genevieve Barrett, our heroine, is a brainy beauty; unappreciated for her brains and not aware of her beauty. Or at least she doesn't trust being appreciated for her beauty, alone.

How the story unfolding differently from the blurb involves this. Richard, disguised as Christopher, gets to become his real human being self. The kinds of actions on the behalf of other people in the little town Genevieve and her father live, that he isn't doing to impress but make an impression nonetheless. He discovers the freedom he could never achieve in London and the Ton A clean slate, a clean soul, a real rapport with plain common nice people. He likes himself as Christopher better than Richard. Falling in love with Genevieve, he discovers the Harmsworth jewel isn't the gem he wants or needs after all. Genevieve falling in love with Richard, is more complicated. Her trust issues are real. Her usefulness as her father's academician is taken for granted, and her actual worth is completely overlooked. In order to overcome her trust issues she has to come to see past his polished, well-dressed exterior, even past his sensual attraction to see his needs. And when Richard's real identity comes to light there will be getting past that lie!

Anna Campbell writes perfectly believable, nasty villains. Then there's the subtle villainy of a weak, selfish father selling his daughter to the highest bidder, the one that keeps her nearby to continue working for him, and the coffers of the local minor aristocracy's patronage open to him. Honorable and loyal friends. Lovely, sensual love scenes. Twisty, 'how-are-they-going-to-get-out-of-this-one' plots. And great dogs!
I enjoyed this book by Anna Campbell. I have not read the first book in the series and had no trouble following the story line. However, I do want to go back and read book one in the series and continue with series as I thoroughly enjoyed this story. This story has adventurer, romance, deception, and good old fashioned romance where the hero doesn't belittle or physically hurt the heroine. Some books I've read lately have mean heroes and there is a fine line between strong stoic heroes and mean heroes. I liked Richard/Christopher. Yes, at the beginning he was a thief and only wanted the family jewel that Genevieve had in her possession, but as the book moves forward his character comes to truly care and love our smart witty Genevieve. He is a good hero and I liked those times where he did rescue Genevieve from the villain and accepted her just as she was without trying to change her. Genevieve was a good strong smart independent heroine who did allow herself to love and open her heart. I liked the witty dialogue between the two characters and the humorous instances in the story ( e.g her horrid stitch work ). I felt like the two were really falling for each other and couldn't wait till all the secrets were out in the open and a happily ever after could occur. This was a great book for a relaxing Sunday afternoon at home. Go buy it and enjoy!
I love possessive, protective and jealous heroes who are crazy about the heroines and fall hard for them and so I loved the hero in this book. I also loved how obsessed he was about the heroine. He wanted her for five years and was not going to let an opportunity to get her pass him, no matter what the cost. I loved that he had to chase her. She was not easy and was not a doormat, that was refreshing. I also liked that he was faithful to her even during separations. Sadly that is not always the case. The smex scenes were hot and the ending a HFN which I was fine with.
I've been lusting after this book for years because it had so many positive reviews, and people were saying it was like a bodice ripper of olde - and you guys know how much I love bodice rippers. Throw in an obsessive hero and a revenge theme, and I. Am. So. There. When this book had a price drop down to $3.49, I pounced. "Finally!" I thought. "Precious is mine!" I thought.

Post-reading, all I can say is feh.

***WARNING SPOILERS***

CLAIMING THE COURTESAN is about Lord Kylemore (Crymore) and Verity (Very Dumb). Very Dumb is Crymore's mistress. They had a contract that stipulated that she could leave after a year, and all of his gifts would remain hers after their time was up. Crymore did not take the contract seriously and after a fight with his mom, he's like, "F U, Mom! You think you can boss me around? I'm going to marry my whore! That'll show you!"

But Crymore's mistress is tired of the lifestyle of the "soiled dove" and absconds with her belongings, selling all of her expensive gifts to live a life of anonymity in the countryside. Well, Crymore can't have that, can he? He pursues her, kidnaps her in the middle of the street after attempting to kill her brother (who he thinks is her lover), and then takes her away with him to his remote Scottish estate, where he proceeds to rape her nightly for daring to leave him before he said he was done.

Very Dumb makes a few token efforts at escape, but mostly there's talk of traitorous bodies and then she cuddles with him at night because Crymore has night terrors (daddy issues). I was not impressed. I was even less impressed when while running away from him yet again, he saves her from falling off a cliff and that's when she decides she loves him. I was even less impressed when Crymore decides he loves her too and is like, "Maybe now I can treat her to some consensual sex at last!" I'm like, "*****, that's not up to you! She decides if it's consensual you **********ing piece of ****. ****!!!" What makes this even more ridiculous is that while all this raping is going on, Crymore is beating him up, forcing himself to do it to keep up appearances, whining all the while that he's a nice guy, and how bad he feels that she pushed him to this and blah, blah blah.

Crymore is that super guy you have blocked on Tinder because in his profile he says "I'm a nice guy who's tired of the drama looking for a girl who doesn't play games" but the literal first thing he messages you is "Nice tits - DTF?" with a picture of his peen attached.

Anyway, this being a romance novel, Crymore and Very Dumb end up getting together and having teh sex0rs. But then Very Dumb decides that she can't be with him because it would shame his honor or something like that. So she flees him again - and who does she run into but Mommie Dearest, who beats up her brother (again - poor guy) and then announces gleefully that she's going to disfigure Verity and then have her gangbanged by her servants while she watches. And she's a little too excited by this, if you catch my drift, which makes it extraaaaa creepy. But don't worry, because Crymore is a stalker to the very end, and arrives just in time to put a stop to his mother, but not before saying, "F U, Mom! We're still getting married and you get to choose between Norfolk and the mental asylum!"

The end.

I really liked the beginning but I simply could not stomach the rest. I'm an avid reader of bodice rippers, so it's not the rape aspect that bothered me. It's that it was handled so badly, and with such disrespect to the characters. The author tried to make the rapist into a nice guy, and he didn't even really have to grovel - Very Dumb just decided that she loved him after all, which kind of makes this feel extra super creepy, because you know she probably just came down with Stockholm Syndrome after she was traumatized by all those near-death experiences and abuse. God, even the servants were complicit, saying, basically, "He's a nice guy! Deal with it!" when she told them what he was doing to her and begged them to help her escape. Yeah, no. This was not cool and I'm very disappoint.

Hopefully her other book, UNTOUCHED, is better.

1.5 out of 5 stars