![]() ![]() I miss the unapologetically flawed characters. It didn’t hold up for me because I lost the ability to believe in blissful rapes, because of weaknesses in the craftsmanship, and because the cycle of “I hate you / Let’s have sex” got tiring. I don’t miss it, but sometimes I miss aspects of the historicals of that era. I kept this book for years, partly from nostalgia, but got rid of it long ago. Hank retaliates by forcing himself on her, which she finds blissful beyond imagining, and she punishes him for that by (A) shooting him, and (B) putting his face on “Wanted” posters. She romances the hero, Hank, to make another man jealous, and then she dumps Hank cold. The heroine, Samantha, was spoiled and willful, the daughter of a wealthy rancher. I was thirteen years old when I discovered the genre with Johanna Lindsey’s Heart of Thunder (1983) ( A | BN | K S ). Share your own reading experiences in the comments. ![]() To prime the pump, so to speak, I asked the Dear Author crew to write up a small post about their first romance reads. I thought it would be fun if reminisced about our first romance read. ![]()
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