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Book Review of Tempt the Devil

Tempt the Devil
Tempt the Devil
Author: Anna Campbell
Genre: Romance
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Helpful Score: 8


Anna Campbell is one of my favorite romance writers right now. I appreciate that she is willing to go places other writers would not dare.

Haveing ssid , especially in the great quantities that are examined in this book. I am o.k. with SOME darkness, but the heroine in this story had almost no lightness in her life.

Familial betrayal. Childhood sexual slavery. Bearing a child as a result of childhood rape followed by barrenness. Separation from her child. Inability to enjoy sex. A complete absence of loving adult relationships.

I mean, come on. This woman's suffering knew no end. She even ended up with a hero who treated her very shabbily very deep into the book. What was the point of that scene? To show the reader just how miserable Olivia's life was? Yeah, we got it.

In addition to having a very put upon heroine, the book also featured a not very compelling hero. I didn't like the way he treated the heroine in particular(even at the end) or other peoplein general. Not a nice man.

I also thought there were too many scenes depicting one on one interations between the hero and the heroine. It was as if their relationship took place in a vacuum. Clausterphobic at times.