? “She determined her best course was simply to make him suffer.”?

Sometimes I want feminine rage to just be rage. I want the heroine to be able to do revenge with no remorse. No having to worry about repercussions. No hero constantly trying to apologize. I don’t want him to keep flashing his rakish grin; I want him W E E P I N G. Sometimes I want him to sit in silent pain for 90% of the book and think about what he’s done because even apologizing is selfish. I don’t want them to touch until he’s at least 5ft under with grief and remorse. This was one of those times I needed full devastation, and I simply don’t think I felt that.

A lot of his remorse seemed to happen off page or was overshadowed by his apologies that were really just meant to make himself feel better. He kept forcing his presence on her and I’m no! let her hate you in peace it’s the least you can do!! She doesn’t need your help!! You gave up all rights to caring about her when you valued “honor” over her happiness because NEWSFLASH you made a promise to her before anyone else!!! And he had the audacity to call HER a COWARD for not trusting him. Oooo my blood boils.

She really gave him too much of herself too early. She had a nice guy courting her but he was taking a while so Knightly was why don’t we reconcile in public and be seen together so he gets jealous. Regina acquiesced too quickly and idk it felt he was winning small victories all over this book. He shouldn’t have been allowed to even touch her until at least 90%. I found him to be more selfish than remorseful which sucked because it’s a Lorraine book and she still did make me him.

I also really struggled with the revenge portion of the book. She wrote the scandalous stories about him to ruin his life (I SUPPORT), but then they were being used against her as well (it’s a lot to explain but basically her agency was being threatened by more idiot men)!! BOO. LET HER LIVE. LET HER DO REVENGE. I don’t want her regretting the revenge or feeling bad. Don’t get me wrong, Regina had some GREAT lines against Knightly, but overall she gave way too much and he didn’t give enough.

I had the highest of hopes at the beginning because Regina seemed both a woman scorned and a woman committed to Knightly’s suffering. I thought it was going to be the delicious kind of angsty, but it really just felt watered down. The steam was pretty lukewarm and even her scandalous story revenge wasn’t as metal as it could’ve been. Pull a Jessica Trent and shoot him with no remorse. I don’t think I’ll have the urge to reread this. Rook is a wildcard so I’ll definitely still read his book and I hope Lawrence gets one too. Overall, I miss old school Lorraine levels of bonkers. Hell I even miss the toe fetishes. He didn’t worship her delicate toes once!!

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