Willy W. reviewed on 8/22/2014 + 503 more book reviews

A lot of sex surrounded by a very long and drawn out story with an unlikeable hero and immature heroine. To the end of the book the hero has sex with other women (although at the end there are some mitigating circumstances). Guy is a total man-whore which is never really addressed (how does he not have VD?), her father is a jerk and a gambling addict, also never addressed. I get that Susan Johnson is writing a story that is intended to reflect the times (gambling for a living, lack of fidelity were common among the Ton). But while Johnson conveniently sticks to convention as a way of not having to resolve past behavior, she flouts it when she wants a virginal young "lady" to sneak off and have sex with a stranger, ride jockey in a horse race, or have regular, unbridled sex without any uncertainty or conflicted emotions. It reminded me a bit of No Gentle Love (without the slapping and marital rape) where things just keep going wrong and wrong and these people should hate each other and you kind of wind up hating them. These books may be written around the same time (early 90's) and perhaps it was just a trend to have these kind of epic generally unhappy stories.

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