Matter of Temptation Book

Robert Hawthorne, Duke of Killingsworth, escapes the prison his twin brother has had him locked up in for the last 8 years on the eve of the "Duke's" wedding to Victoria Lambert. He goes ahead and marries her otherwise this would be a very short book. Then there's ~tension because he won't get his dick out and she wants his dick out. Also the whole "reclaiming his identity" thing or whatever.

1. The writing just did not work for me. It's so very ... soft. Miles of introspection; lots of telling; very little verve. It wandered. Hither and thither and without much force to it. Just not something I liked.

2. The whole "my twin stole my identity for EIGHT YEARS" was very...untraumatic for Robert. He was more worried about going to bed with Torie instead of his brother's perfidy, the likelihood of going back to prison, none of it.

2. In fact, the whole "EIGHT YEARS in prison" thing was straight ignored once Robert escaped. Like, he has no lingering effects of being kept in isolation for EIGHT YEARS. He's healthy; he's strong; he's fine except he's slightly pale OH NO. I mean, the description is pretty much straight psychological torment but it's handwaved away because that doesn't make any sense in the scope of the romance. Robert's just A-OK, ready to have sex now!!

4. Also, allegedly Robert's a virgin but he's VERY GOOD AT IT because he's been imagining it for EIGHT YEARS so. Take that with however many grains of salt you need to make it tolerable.