Reviews for The Spymaster's Lady

The average rating for The Spymaster's Lady based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-04-15 00:00:00 Andrew Crystal My guess at how the publisher's office works, based on the cover of this book: Publisher: So what's this book about? Assistant: Hell if I know. Or care. Publisher: Ok. Put an ambiguous guy on the front. That should "cover" our bases. Assistant: Good one, boss. I'll make sure to make him look like a tool. OR maybe something like this: Assistant: Spymaster's Lady, huh? That's a pretty intriguing title. Publisher: Yea. It's too sophisticated. The cover has to balance that. A: Ok. I'll use an effeminate male model dazedly looking at nothing. P: Perfect. Wait, how was the story? A: Inventive, fun, sly, and entertaining. P: Crap. Better make him shirtless to disguise that. A: Well, there was an epic-type romance with plenty of heat. P: Ok, he can be in the process of taking off the shirt. Make sure his chest is showing though. A: How many abs can I show? 2? P: Hmm… How was the dialogue? A: Direct, intelligent, often hilarious. P: The characters? A: Lovely. Best I've seen in a long time. P: Better make it an 6-pack then. We need to make sure people who aren't used to romance novels are scared off. A: -nods- Genius, boss. P: I know. One last thing. If the book's unique and witty, make sure the back cover hides that as well as possible in cliché and over the top descriptions. A: Please. That's romance novel publishing 101. I just used my favorite template and inserted the names and occupations. P: Great work. Look like our job is done. Let me buy us a round of glue bottles to sniff. A: Sounds delightful. Seriously loved this book. And obviously like many others, seriously hate the cover. Had to get that out there. Rest of the review coming soon.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-09-25 00:00:00 Paul Torchia Why can't I select ZERO stars? Why, Goodreads? Tell me why! WTF is the matter with this author?! We have an amazing heroine, in most respects. Paired with a hero that is fucking unforgivable. After saving their lives, he betrays her, treats her like a whore, and virtually threatens her with sexual assault on a constant basis. Then, heroine helps them again. I don't know why. Personally, I would have left the bastards to fucking die. I would have been rubbing two sticks together to try and light them on fucking fire, frankly. But I guess she was trying to garner some goodwill, to improve her situation a little. Good fucking luck with that. Anyway, she helps save the life of one of them AGAIN, and then the hero decides it is time to start dosing her with opiates. WHAT. THE. FUCK?!? This is where I started skimming. She comes on to him - STONED OUT OF HER MIND - and he happily takes advantage. With Adrian, whom I sort of liked up until this point (because he had been pressing Gray to lay the fuck off), encouraging him to go ahead and screw her while she's like that. FUCK! She continues to help, after the "hero" (yeah, I am being sarcastic. Fuck Gray.) SLAPS her out of the drug-induced haze he has been keeping her in (hey, I guess he prefers his women to just lie there drooling). WTF is the matter with this author? How can anyone like this book? I can't even, really, like the heroine anymore, because I have ZERO respect for her. And frankly, if I kept reading to see her hook up with the hero once she, you know, recovers from her opium addition, fucking thank you very fucking much, I would probably instantly die of apoplexy. Fuck this book. Arrrrrrrrggggggghhhh!!