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Helpful Score: 8
A very unusual romance novel with atypical characters and situation. The hero is scarred and married to someone else and the heroine is a prostitute (sort of) and an accused murderer. If these ingredients don't sound very romantic, they aren't. However you have to read the story to find out why you should root for them and why nothing is as it seems.
The Secret Pearl is romantic and drawn out with carefully paced moments of tenderness and angst. It is a slow burning story. This is one of those books that sticks with you. The characters are two people who are really ruined in so many ways. They are victims of circumstance and perhaps their own desire to be upstanding (an adulterer doesn't sound upstanding, but read the story and it will all make sense).
As for steaminess, not so much. Balogh is more interested in telling the story of the falling in love not the making love.
The reviewer who said the hero rapes the heroine at the start of the book is exaggerating. This is NOT one of those books where the hero is a rapist and we're supposed to root for him. I'm not saying the heroine liked the situation, but she was there voluntarily and he certainly wasn't using force. Don't let that review mislead you.
The Secret Pearl is romantic and drawn out with carefully paced moments of tenderness and angst. It is a slow burning story. This is one of those books that sticks with you. The characters are two people who are really ruined in so many ways. They are victims of circumstance and perhaps their own desire to be upstanding (an adulterer doesn't sound upstanding, but read the story and it will all make sense).
As for steaminess, not so much. Balogh is more interested in telling the story of the falling in love not the making love.
The reviewer who said the hero rapes the heroine at the start of the book is exaggerating. This is NOT one of those books where the hero is a rapist and we're supposed to root for him. I'm not saying the heroine liked the situation, but she was there voluntarily and he certainly wasn't using force. Don't let that review mislead you.
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