Review: Not sexy when a man cheats on his wife.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2012
First off, I would like to say that this is very well written. The conflicts in the beginning are very believable and heartfelt. The characters are well drawn and I really feel for their plight. The love scenes are also well done, not raunchy.That being said, I don't like that he cheated on his wife. Granted, he's cheating WITH his wife, but he doesn't know that when he chooses to do it. So he still technically cheated. And not only that, but he enjoyed it, felt no remorse afterwards and made plans to do it again. And again. I lost respect for him after that.I'm about halfway through it, just after the first the point where he decides to have the affair, and I'm not sure I want to continue. Were I Clarissa, I would have been very hurt that my husband chose to have an affair with a "whore" (that's he calls her). It's not believable to me that this didn't even enter her thoughts when he cheated on her. Again, it doesn't matter that it is his wife; he doesn't know that. And now, reading other reviews on the Ellora's Cave website, I read that he has his wife assaulted? That's not sexy to me. Nor is a man cheating on his wife. I don't care if it's historically correct, that it might have been tolerated back then. Doesn't make it right.I read for escapism, a glorified fantasy. I want to see a man have morals, even in an erotic romance. And this isn't sexy to me.EDIT: Okay, I'm leaving my original review as it, but changing my rating and adding an amendment. I'd originally rated this two stars, and you can see above what I thought of it. I decided to give it another chance. I won't give it away, but the hero redeems himself. And the scene where I thought he was supposed to have had her attacked wasn't like that at all. The hero had figured out who she was, and knowing his wife, he was attempting to bring out desires she was too embarrassed to confess out loud.Oh and in the end, the heroine gets her "revenge". ;) So, in the end, I did end up enjoying this. It's not very often a book can surprise me, but I always like it when it does, and this one did.