Every secondary character has a super white bread name: Paul, Elizabeth, Emily, Peter Nicki, Edward, Anne… Anne Gilbert, in fact, leading me to believe that McNaught read L.M. Maybe it’s just that she’s not good with coming up with names. Why… why would you do that? Name characters who are going to be sexually involved with each other after your children? Did I mention that Clayton beats Whitney with a riding crop and rapes her? She says, let’s see here… She says,įilled with zeal and confidence, I named the heroine Whitney after my daughter and the hero Clayton after my son Okay, let’s start with her introduction to the revised version. Maybe I’m taking things out of context and Judith McNaught deserves more of a fair shake. In this particular case, I wish I hadn’t.īut, hey, I’ve only given you two quotes. I was definitely warned that it was terrible. I did a lot of livetweets with this book as it got worse and worse.
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Or, since I am not going to chuck my Kindle across the room like I would if I had a paper copy of this book, a search of reaction gifs on social media for “nuke it from orbit” and “die in a fire”. …it wouldn’t matter if you hurt me every night-as long as you always say those things-about wanting to be a part of me.Īnd that moment there, which seems to be saying that sexual violence is fine as long as it leads to babies? Wall banger. This leads Whitney to overcome her fear of sex, as she says, When I am inside of you, I will put the seed of my own life into you and leave it there for you to keep and shelter within you-a symbol of my love and need for you, like your betrothal ring.Īnd, of course, he promises not to hurt her. I officially stopped reading partway through the wedding night scene. But by then Whitney, apparently suffering from Stockholm syndrome, realizes that she really truly loves him and wants to marry him after all–although she’s hoping to avoid marital sex, because as far as she knows sex is rape and it’s painful and terrible. I made it to 80%, which is after the “love interest” Clayton buys heroine Whitney from her father for an obscene amount of money, beats her with a riding crop (a scene toned down for the new edition), rapes her because he’s jealous, and is remorseful enough to write the whole thing off as a financial loss and leave. Some hints of pedophilia and incest, too. It follows many romance conventions, but sexual violence by the “hero” breaks it for me.Ĭontent warnings for this book: rape, violence against women, gaslighting, misogyny, women as birthing vessels. Unless you want to see how awful it really is. She is… a 19 year old tomboy reformed in Paris to a great beauty and wit He is… A 34 year old duke, rich and known as a scandalous rake Setting time & place: “Regency” England and France
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Original publication date: 1985, revised edition 2006
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How, I thought, could anyone want to throw a book against the wall? That was before I encountered Whitney, My Love, a rapemance which should be thrown-or wedged under a wobbly table in a diner, or used for firestarter, or relegated as paper in an outhouse somewhere. My mother, who worked in a library while pregnant with me, used to say that I never defaced books as a small child.
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When I was putting together the Romancelandia Glossary, “wall banger” was one of the terms that was new to me.