Review: Not bad, could have been better
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2013
Ok, so I read most of the reviews before purchasing this book.  Maybe the reason the "rape" scene didn't shock and scandalized me as much as others is because the 80's bodice ripping books were what I began reading in my teens.Romance novels are fiction.  The author has to pit the hero/heroine against some form of struggle. This one chose rape.  How can Dominic redeem himself to Lillith after he hurts her?  It's not something he wanted to do.  He wasn't violent or abusive to her...his desperation for a solution for him and his people drove him and unfortunately because he just wanted to get it done, blinded him to the pain his actions caused until after the fact.I did like that there was remorse, actually much more than most of the bodice ripping romances I remember.  I didn't think the story was marred by it's length, but I did wish that Dominic would have explained the reasons for his actions to Lillith before or maybe after he'd forced himself on her.  It seemed to me that he kept doing things without talking to Lillith which of course then made me wonder how he could "love" someone he didn't really speak to, especially while in bed, save a few sex muddled phrases.  All in all, I wasn't dissatisfied, just left wanting a little more substance.