Review: The Frenchman's Revenge
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2012
I struggled with the choppy writing in The Frenchman's Woman, but I found The Frenchman's Revenge a much easier story to fall into. The sentence structure is still oddly simple, but it does work in this story.This is not really a BDSM story, but more a typical hot Dominant male/submissive-but-feisty-most-beautiful-female-in-the-land sort of story. Sometimes these qualities are mentioned so many times it's a little bit aggravating - but - it is a fantasy story, so I shall forgive.As erotica, I would probably give it 2 1/2 to 3 stars. But the revenge aspect of the story, the plotting, and the evil, evil villains bumped it up. We're talking John Wayne to the max, folks, but rather than cowboys and Indians, it's the Mob versus the Chinese, a rivalry that I had not been familiar with and found fascinating.****Possible spoiler****I just have to say - the piercing stuff seemed a little, umm, progressive for the time setting of the novel, and the fact that both Elena and Bai were physically fighting enemies the first day they had piercings in place was pretty hard to believe.Also - the scene where Elena's father sees the piercings, and Elena explains and even tells him about Bai's pierced part gave me the absolute heebie-jeebies. My father was in the delivery room when I gave birth, and believe me, he would have DIED before commenting on my private parts. Possibly squick enough for me to not seek out this author's work in the future.