Marriage Bed Book

This was a badly written book.
So,eeew to the cheating.
But to be frank? It did not bother me as much as it should.
On the other hand, there are times when fiction crosses the lines and becomes pure fantasy. How? We can have unreasonable and we can have pure imposible.
This book had a lot of the impossible. Also, when I finished it, I was more confused then while reading it, because it seem that nothing was really resolved and the feelings of the characters never got to me. I never understood them and the author told me that in the end, they found love. I didn't see it.
But maybe its just me…still these are the important things:

-The woman
I know people did not stigmatize with her because she let him leave. I can say she was silly, but on the other hand-she was young. He was the one that just left after she didn't change her mind. I know that some readers ranted about her being stupid because she did not know that some jewelry was the currency of barking a contract with a mistress. Who cares? If she is like me, or any woman out there, I think the thing that would have flabbergast her was the fact that he had a mistress up till the last moment. Right up till going in to a church. He was having sex with somebody while he told her nice things and courted her. And that, my dear friends, is a big no-no in my book. Not the stupid jewelry. Oh and the talk about his needs and all? Not good. The author wanted me to see that both of them were to blame but I still never could see it. I saw a young girl that had her happiness taken away and I saw people telling her she was to blame. And she took it. She doubted herself. She took him back. Kid and all. And that was just plain wrong. I know he was a charmer and I know she loved him but there are a lot of men in the world and it seem such a waist for Viola to give herself to this loser.

-The man
I wanted to say he was a jerk. He was. And a cheater. Because he was that also. There are alfa heroes out there that are the same. But my biggest problem with this hero was that he was so boring. Yes, boring! It seems everybody saw him as a charmer because he was nice looking and had a few jokes up his sleeve. But to me ,he was plain dull. I read about him, read what he was thinking and all the time a small frown marred my face because I would never love him. And it seem all these good women did. They just did. And why? Because he was easy with a few banal affections? Because he smiled nicely? I call them stupid. I call them shallower then him. I call them wrong, because they never loved him, they loved the image of what he could be to them. Now, if this was a well written story then the hero would have some depth that only the heroine could see. He didn't. He simply had no inner layer. He was what he was. A easy going average person that liked fucking. And maybe some other things. I was never told. Because he what he mostly did was nothing.
His statements about how he never loved his wife made me want to slap him. On the other hand his revelation that he needed her and only her in the end was so fast and..ok, never mind that the author seemed to finish it all in 5 sentences. Look at it like this.-did he love her then? Was that what she was trying to tell us readers? That he simply did not understand? Maybe. I never saw it. But there was something in the scene where he talked to his ex mistress that just saddled him with a child. She looked at him and he knew she wished he was not married. And to tell you the truth I never felt that he would not marry her if Viola did attain a divorce. Because this is how I saw him. As a person going with the flow. Not as a person in love with Viola.

-The babies
His son. Oh, yes, his son. Or as I liked to call it he plot device of hell. I was made to read that 'Do you have illegitimate children' conversation over and over again and him always telling her 'no,no,what do you think of me, sheesh I was careful'. But when he told her French letters were not always efficient a little warning bell rang in my head. When the mountains of letters from his ex came I saw it coming like a big avalanche of snow and I could not do a thing about it. He had a kid! Oh no! How? Just how? This is the thing that most made the line between fiction and fantasy. Or in other words you could just see that it was all written so the author could finish this book one way or the other. French letters were very efficient. This is why they were also very expensive. And not many people used them. But our hero said that he did! Always! Also in a age in which no woman wanted to carry an unwanted child every widow ,mistress, courtesan etc, that indulged in sexual exploits used something to exceed blood flow and stop pregnancies. Baths. Sponges. So how the hell did these people end up with a kid? Also, how did the hero 'know it was his'? It was not because she would never cheat on him. Or because he knew the mistress loved him. No, he seems to know it was his because he 'knew the risks'. What risks? How did they even encounter these risks for God's sake?? Well, it does not matter because this, my friends is nothing more that a means to an end. A drama prop pushed at us so we could see how he could change and take responsibility and how she could soften. Yes, so she could…soft…what? Why did she soften? Why do authors always make their heroines hormonal ticking bombs that have to raise other peoples bastards all the time? Is it a kink for historical romance writers? Is there a law that tells them that if there is a baby, preferably the bastard of the hero then the heroine should fall in to instant love with the brat and mother it no questions asked? Horrible. That just..so not feministic. It's like they are spitting on our genetics and telling us that we, as woman have to love all babies. What a stupid notion! And as books and books pass trough my hands, the more I read these kinds of things the more I get bat sh.t crazy over it. It's just stupid, for Pete's sake!
Oh and the hero…we see hem daydreaming about kiddies with his wife trough the book. But when the ex mistress trusts a child in to his hands he falls instantly in love. Fist of all, in these cases I hate instant love also. I hate it when the kid is the hero/heroin's and I hate it when it is the heroes bastard. But the bigger problem there was the fact that I did not think how cute that is. The thing that came to mind was 'Will any child do?' Not the heroine's child but really any child? If he daydreamed about their children so much why was he not just a bit shaken that this was not her kid? Because this hero is as I said, a person that goes with the flow.

-The love
What love?
The hero could love anybody. He likes any kid. He likes any woman. He likes who ever!
The heroine on the other hand was having a youthful crush on a guy she did not know. Now, 10 years later he is nothing but a moron all the time, and sometimes even cruel. He never thinks he was really wrong and he told her things like 'Fidelity from a husband is something earned by being good in bed ' (Let me kill him, oh please please let me kill him!). So why in gods name did she love him now?! No reason. There was just no reason at all! And then he saddled her with a kid he has by some other stupid woman, and I say-why the f.ck did she stay?
And how could I read this chicken poop?

-The boys and the girls
It was insinuated that his bastard son will inherit. Why would his wife want this? Why would she allow this? And more importantly why did the author put such a big exclamation mark on the fact that he now has a son. It would have been so much nicer, and cleaner if he had a girl. But no. He was getting back with his wife because of a son and now he has a bastard one! Sure, he was the first born. So maybe he should get a title. Oh,wait! But he was born while he was married to an other woman. Does this not make the other woman worthier of having her kids successing the title? But then they had a girl! Oh, a nice little girl! Oh yey! The author cleaned this mess up! Wait, no she did not. She just swept it under a rug, because what will happen when they have more kids? When they get more SONS? Well it seems the main problem was still the fact that like not doing research about French letters the author did non here also. It was almost impossible to make a bastard legit. Even adopted children (not bastards, just adopted) had problems with inheriting! So..what….the…f.ck?

-The conclusion
This whole thing was such a mess…We had cheating-that is such a big no-no in romances…we had a badly developed love (or should I say it again-where is the love? Get it off me!!!!!)…we had bastards (I had an other glimpse of the girls bastard of a supporting character that made me think more about French letters-it seems, french letters herb supplements and all didn't even work whit high priced courtesans! How very strange!)…we had a faulty and fast ending ..and we had a dumb epilogue about a GIRL CHILD WOOHOO (sorry, sarcasm got the best of me)..all in all..not really worth my time. Or anybodies time.