The Devil Takes a Bride (Cabot Sisters #2) by Julia London (HR)
Jun 26, 2023 9:46:23 GMT -7
Banana Boat, bj, and 3 more like this
Post by mlover on Jun 26, 2023 9:46:23 GMT -7
DNF @ 1/3rd into story.
Mostly 1812 England. Sex scenes seemed from a male POV. The tone of this story, IMO,
didn't encourage optimism.
Beauty Grace tried to trap a viscount (unknown to her a gambler w/ debts) in a
compromising position, leading him via a note into a dark, empty tea shop. Instead she
snared his rigid, brooding brother Jefferey, an earl. Grace and the earl agreed to a MOC,
after a Rev & others caught them fondling each other in the tea shop.
Jeff wanted to control people and his immediate environment. In modern times, we'd call
him OCD. IE He needed the exact same # of roses, arranged the same, in vases equally
spaced apart. He wanted Grace to have no society outside their estate. Grace seemed too
smart to tolerate his control.
Jeff's late sire expected perfection from him. The author tended to use his OCD to explain
his sexual fantasies, where he did not follow rigid rules. He considered himself unnatural
IE he thought back to caning the bare bottom of a serving woman at the inn. Her eyes
invited an encore & he took a pass.
Sorry, the gloom/ bloom was off the rose.
Mostly 1812 England. Sex scenes seemed from a male POV. The tone of this story, IMO,
didn't encourage optimism.
Beauty Grace tried to trap a viscount (unknown to her a gambler w/ debts) in a
compromising position, leading him via a note into a dark, empty tea shop. Instead she
snared his rigid, brooding brother Jefferey, an earl. Grace and the earl agreed to a MOC,
after a Rev & others caught them fondling each other in the tea shop.
Jeff wanted to control people and his immediate environment. In modern times, we'd call
him OCD. IE He needed the exact same # of roses, arranged the same, in vases equally
spaced apart. He wanted Grace to have no society outside their estate. Grace seemed too
smart to tolerate his control.
Jeff's late sire expected perfection from him. The author tended to use his OCD to explain
his sexual fantasies, where he did not follow rigid rules. He considered himself unnatural
IE he thought back to caning the bare bottom of a serving woman at the inn. Her eyes
invited an encore & he took a pass.
Sorry, the gloom/ bloom was off the rose.
