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<From The Wall, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 >
RJ, hurled The Unfaithful Wife by Lynne Graham against The Wall.
The reasons were:
For those of you haven't read the Unfaithful Wife - STEER CLEAR - i can't see anything redeeming about this book, the heroine is a candidate for a Women's Refuge..
- the H had slept with other women when he married the h, he basically left her in exile to live an empty life with him for five years, during this time she had to put up with snide looks from colleagues at his dinners and she didn't know what she had done. When she actually thinks she's in love with someone else (of course she isn't and doesn't sleep with him) - he forces her into a physical relationship - now that he (His Lordship) is ready to be married to her. There is no grovelling from him (even though i still wouldn't have liked him) he constantly tells her he knows she loves him and still treats her like crap - at the end she finds out it was because her father had blackmailed him into it. His excuse for sleeping with other women and not her - well - he didn't want to sleep with her and cheat on her. He never even spoke to her about why he was that way with her and the author just created a wimp for him to use as a bashing board.
An opinion you may have is that because they didn't consumate their marriage it wasn't really infidelity on his part - (the marriage taking place wasn't enough....) now okay fine the 'sleeping with other women' is enough to put me off in itself but the fact that he put the woman he so-called loved (during all that time) in a position where she had to take the humiliation and innuendos from his guests during those five LONG years - makes it even worse (is this a man you could like? can he really be that cruel and not see it?) and then this H had the gall to feel enraged when pictures of her and this other man were nearly printed in the paper. The author then tries to give the impression that his affairs were discreet and just hinted at by his guests, he doesn't even so much as open his mouth to grovel for her at the end - and then the author or Harlequin - rub salt on the wound by friggin thinking of THAT TITLE!
- it really was the most awful book - just in case i didn't give you that idea..!
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bobbij added:
I have heard of this book and not good things about it! Except that the fangirls on Amazon love this book. Some of them also liked 'Stormfire' by Christine Monson, so I don't trust many Amazon reviews that deal with romance novels. I would also like to throw Diana Palmer against the wall for writng these kinds of books also. I also think that the title is offensive.
Violet added:
Yes, this is completely the type of plot that I avoid. Hm, humiliating the woman you love--sounds like the author is a graduate of the Sandra Brown School of Romance Writing.
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