Helpful Score: 8
Call me a feminist, but obedient wives and feminine submission have just never done it for me -cutting me, sadly, off from a large selection of romance novels, I might add- so imagine my surprise when, finishing this roughly eight hours after I started, I set it down and exclaimed out loud, "That was a Really good book!" I even bounced up and down in my seat a little.
Okay, it wasn't exactly what I was expecting, which was some vague notion of our heroine languishing on stuffed pillows being pleasured endlessly by a devoted priest while making the occasional ritual protest.
What I got was a remarkably touching story of characters with genuine faults, and people who still love them anyway. Well, alright, the sex scenes were a little disappointing and Lydia was just a tiny bit too perfect, I would have been more touched if it hadn't been so danged easy for her to forgive Ru Shan Every. Single. Time. But, it did impress me that their actions were their actions, and no extenuating circumstances were revealed to make it all better. They had their problems, (or, rather, he had his- boy oh boy did he have his!) and in the end they truly loved each other anyway.
This is much more romantic than it is erotic, and if I weren't such an incredible sap, I might have rolled my eyes at the "the power of love solves all" bit at the end, but isn't that what romances are for? I have to admit, I just kind of melted into a gooey puddle...=D
Okay, it wasn't exactly what I was expecting, which was some vague notion of our heroine languishing on stuffed pillows being pleasured endlessly by a devoted priest while making the occasional ritual protest.
What I got was a remarkably touching story of characters with genuine faults, and people who still love them anyway. Well, alright, the sex scenes were a little disappointing and Lydia was just a tiny bit too perfect, I would have been more touched if it hadn't been so danged easy for her to forgive Ru Shan Every. Single. Time. But, it did impress me that their actions were their actions, and no extenuating circumstances were revealed to make it all better. They had their problems, (or, rather, he had his- boy oh boy did he have his!) and in the end they truly loved each other anyway.
This is much more romantic than it is erotic, and if I weren't such an incredible sap, I might have rolled my eyes at the "the power of love solves all" bit at the end, but isn't that what romances are for? I have to admit, I just kind of melted into a gooey puddle...=D
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