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Treat Her Right
This looked to be right in my alley, since I'm a huge fan of heroines who change up the hero's life like a whirlwind. Lori Foster is always a bit hit or miss with me, but I was intrigued enough to hope for the best.Alas, this was definitely a miss. A big one at that.I'm not a huge fan of fast romances that play over a short period in general. Here half of the book plays on the day they meet, then we get stuff about a week later, and the ending is one month after that. The pacing is just all kinds of wrong, and didn't add to the believability of the romance.I can understand lust at first sight though, so I can forgive that. What I cannot forgive is that the hero doesn't want to feel this lust, so he acts out on the heroine. In a massive way. He's mean and insulting, not only in his actions towards her, but also in his thoughts.Wynn is a tall girl of 6 ft, almost as tall as the hero. She's also quite sporty and not very feminine in her behavior. Zack refers to her as big (and even giant a couple of times) every other sentence. His penis finds her sexy, but his mind is revolted and it never, ever stops. As the 6ft amazonian built heroine in my own story I grew very tired of that, and ended up being insulted. (Especially when in the sequel Mr. November (Men To The Rescue #5) Wynn is again referred to as big and giant and manly, which means it's not really a hang-up of the character Zack, but more of the author).Now I know that the average length in America is lower than it is here, and I tend to chuckle a bit when men are described as very tall at 6 ft, when here that's just slightly above average. I'm quite tall for a woman here, and I realize I'd be even more tall in comparison elsewhere, but a reaction like this seems totally out of proportion and mean to me. I'm pretty sure that if you'd change the heroine from tall to simply not a size 0 (I'm not entirely sure how American sizes work, but I mean a heroine who isn't model sized, but rather normal woman sized) and change the word big for the word fat (As in "She was sexy, even though she was fat. She was fat, but she turned him on so much), I'm pretty sure the outrage would be huge. Imagine if the heroine resembled your body-type and you were described in a derogatory manner throughout the book. What's even worse is that not once we see Zack actually being nice to her. They are either fighting (with a running commentary of all his nasty thoughts) or getting it on, and then suddenly there is a HEA a month later? Ha! And Zack doesn't even really apologize. I'm sorry but Wynn deserved so much better, and I didn't buy it for a minute. I read category romance for the quick feel-good vibe of them, but this one just left a really bad taste in my mouth and I'm all grumpy and in a bad mood. Failure all around, and it'll take ages before I try another Lori Foster again.

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