For Honor's Sake - Connie Mason
May 16, 2019 12:48:55 GMT -7
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For Honor’s Sake – Connie Mason
1.0 / 5.0
Heat: 6/10
Genre: HR, western, 1850s, mail-order bride
Trigger Warning: h is nearly raped, descriptions are moderately graphic
SPOILER ALERT: this review is somewhat like cinema sins. I’m going to pick the entire book apart so yeah, spoilers!
As you might guess from my rating, I did not like this book. There are a number of factors that contribute to my rating. At first I was irked by some minor anachronisms. Then I was annoyed by some bad editing. This gradually morphed into a desire to bin the book when the zerohero cheated. But DNF is almost beyond my abilities so I slogged on. By the end I was only reading so I could write this review.
Writing style: this author jumped back and forth between omniscient 3rd person POV and 2nd person POV. I don’t like omniscient POV romances and I hate 2nd person POV in fiction. Gems like “You can image how surprised Rod was when he…..” Blech! The worst writing sin, however, was the foreshadowing. It was very ham handed and it happened many, many times.
“The inexplicable lack of communication between two people deeply in love was the major cause of what transpired next.”
Every 50 pages or so, there was one of these doom and gloom pronouncements. Apparently this author missed the day they talked about show, don’t tell.
Repeated near rape: this hapless h was nearly raped not once, not twice, but three (yes three) times. Couldn’t the author think of any other plot device to cause suspense? How about a rattlesnake instead of a trouser snake.
Zerohero: the man ran hot and cold like a broken tap. One minute he’s treating the h like a pariah, and the next minute he’s horndogging all over her. Then he “accidentally” deflowered his ex-fiance (who married his father). She snuck into his bed when he was asleep and he thought she was his wife. I might have been able to get past that, but every time the ex-fiance exposed some body part (and she did it a number of times) the z.H. couldn’t help but be aroused by it. Really? Are you that shallow?
Cartoonish Villainess: the villain of this book is the ex-fiance. She’s maybe 18 (possibly 17) and she will literally do anything to get the H back. At one point she pays the worst criminal she can find to have the h gang raped and killed. And, as is often the case in fiction, not a single one of the men detects her flawed character until it’s too late. The z.H. fails to realize it several times when being confronted by her naked boobs as she tried to entice him into her bed. Honestly, was he dropped on his head as a child or what?
Gullible heroine: despite a mountain of evidence against the character of the ex-fiance, the h still believes her one more time when she claims the H is coming to her bed. She consistently ends up in trouble because she runs away when told something bad instead of walking up to the H and demanding to know the truth.
I could go on. There were many other things that irritated me about this book, but I think I’ve covered the worst aspects. I should also say that I know this author can write better than this. I’ve read other books by her that I quite enjoyed.
1.0 / 5.0
Heat: 6/10
Genre: HR, western, 1850s, mail-order bride
Trigger Warning: h is nearly raped, descriptions are moderately graphic
SPOILER ALERT: this review is somewhat like cinema sins. I’m going to pick the entire book apart so yeah, spoilers!
As you might guess from my rating, I did not like this book. There are a number of factors that contribute to my rating. At first I was irked by some minor anachronisms. Then I was annoyed by some bad editing. This gradually morphed into a desire to bin the book when the zerohero cheated. But DNF is almost beyond my abilities so I slogged on. By the end I was only reading so I could write this review.
Writing style: this author jumped back and forth between omniscient 3rd person POV and 2nd person POV. I don’t like omniscient POV romances and I hate 2nd person POV in fiction. Gems like “You can image how surprised Rod was when he…..” Blech! The worst writing sin, however, was the foreshadowing. It was very ham handed and it happened many, many times.
“The inexplicable lack of communication between two people deeply in love was the major cause of what transpired next.”
Every 50 pages or so, there was one of these doom and gloom pronouncements. Apparently this author missed the day they talked about show, don’t tell.
Repeated near rape: this hapless h was nearly raped not once, not twice, but three (yes three) times. Couldn’t the author think of any other plot device to cause suspense? How about a rattlesnake instead of a trouser snake.
Zerohero: the man ran hot and cold like a broken tap. One minute he’s treating the h like a pariah, and the next minute he’s horndogging all over her. Then he “accidentally” deflowered his ex-fiance (who married his father). She snuck into his bed when he was asleep and he thought she was his wife. I might have been able to get past that, but every time the ex-fiance exposed some body part (and she did it a number of times) the z.H. couldn’t help but be aroused by it. Really? Are you that shallow?
Cartoonish Villainess: the villain of this book is the ex-fiance. She’s maybe 18 (possibly 17) and she will literally do anything to get the H back. At one point she pays the worst criminal she can find to have the h gang raped and killed. And, as is often the case in fiction, not a single one of the men detects her flawed character until it’s too late. The z.H. fails to realize it several times when being confronted by her naked boobs as she tried to entice him into her bed. Honestly, was he dropped on his head as a child or what?
Gullible heroine: despite a mountain of evidence against the character of the ex-fiance, the h still believes her one more time when she claims the H is coming to her bed. She consistently ends up in trouble because she runs away when told something bad instead of walking up to the H and demanding to know the truth.
I could go on. There were many other things that irritated me about this book, but I think I’ve covered the worst aspects. I should also say that I know this author can write better than this. I’ve read other books by her that I quite enjoyed.
