the hawk and the dove by virginia henley

Point is, this was a Nazi-zombie bodice ripper vs a Walking Dead. I recently bought S4 and I'm still stuck on ep7 because I don't have the courage to see what I know is going to be a huge mess or lose any more of the main characters. However, if the same thing happened to one of my beloved Walking Dead characters, I'd be in tears, a nervous wreck or most likely both. The whole thing was so silly and over the top. Ouch, right? Then not 2 seconds later he's bitten again.

I watched a highly entertaining Nazi-zombie movie recently and some poor idiot got bit, took a chainsaw to the bitten appendage and then cauterized it with a flame thrower. Then again, I don't have that trigger.įor me, becoming emotionally involved is all about context (unless there's an animal involved, then I have zero sense of humor). I hesitate to speak for other women, but as for myself, I couldn't take any of it seriously enough to be upset or offended by the hero or his giant man-root's actions. I know people have various levels of tolerance for that in romance. Trigger Warning: There is one scene where the hero spanks and then rapes the heroine in a jealous rage. They always seemed like a couple of high school kids playing games and trying to reenact everything they'd ever seen on scrambled late night Cinemax.

Problem is, we never got past the childish surface level with either of the characters. It's a completely understandable human emotion. I was in high school once, I remember hoping some boy who rejected me would come crawling and I could get some payback. I could totally understand her need for revenge against Hawk and empathize with the childish bravado and pride that led her to plan on seducing him and then abandon him once he fell in love. Her stepfather and sisters hated her and I don't think even her own mother cared much. She was a foot stomping termagant, but it was clear it was all done out of a sense of hurt and rejection. Sabre/Sara was sympathetic at first when she was with her awful family and then humiliated when Hawk married her by proxy and abandoned her sight unseen. My problem was that I could find no emotional connection to the characters. but I don't need to be reminded of it quite so often. Hey, don't get me wrong, being well-endowed is a nice thing. Apparently Hawk even whipped out a ruler and measured his awesome manliness at some point, since he was able to say confidently that he was 10' fully erect. You could make a drinking game out of the references to the size of Hawk's 'throbbing shaft' or the number of times Sabre's ripe melons popped out of whatever she was wearing and get very, very intoxicated. It's very porny in an often hilarious way.

If the elements of the old school bodice ripper do not offend or trigger you, this can be entertaining in an over-the-top train wreck sort of way. I'm not going to rate this because, honestly, I did so much skimming it's almost unfair to mark it as read.

The hawk and the dove by virginia henley