Review: Not For Every Woman
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2014
I'm going to keep this very short and simple and just say, if you don't like serious bodice rippers (rape, forced seductions, abuse) you are going to hate this book.  Me personally, I'm still drooling.  I love bodice rippers - I crave them and I wish Ms. Ashley would write about EVERY FREAKING WARRIOR IN THIS NOVEL.  I do have something else to point out as well...the editor should get punched in the face for the way the translations were handled.  The only reason I didn't give this book FIVE FLYING STARS and a flag pin is because I have never read a book that dealt so badly with translations!  The author would write a sentences in the warrior's native tongue and then 10 pages later you had the translations.  For up to five sentences.  It drove me batty going back and forth between the pages.  (It's one thing to do that with a science or debate novel, it's quite another to do it for pleasure reading). If I hadn't REALLY enjoyed the story itself and the style of this author's writing I would have stopped reading and deleted the book - that's how much the "*" jumping annoyed me.  (Most of the time it was right in the middle of a dramatic scene and it took me out of the 'zone' I was in while reading - it was jarring to not understand and have to flip through pages, "oh that's what he said," go back, read the heroine's response, have him respond and have to flip through pages again...UGH).