The Magpie Lord

I have so many things I want to say about how truly bad the ‘romance' between these two is and how it feels like dubious consent at best sometimes. (Because, honestly, it feels awfully close to rape a lot of times, ESPECIALLY in the delightful [/sarcasm] bonus short where one of the guys actually tells the other ‘stop' and it is ignored and we are NEVER told that they already discussed it. I'm sorry, but if someone tells you to stop and you aren't in a consensual non-consent scene with a safeword, it's rape.) But how I thought without the unpleasant sex scenes this book would have been a blast - and ignoring the horse torture and the strange turn to straight-up horror - I could have like it. I have a couple of pages in Word with my half-formed thoughts and complaints, but, you know what? I finally have gotten over the bad mood this book put me in - only took two of the sweetest, fluffiest romances ever - and I don't want to.

Suffice to say, I have now read four books by this author, liked each one less than the last, and am probably done.