Title: When did spouse abuse become a "Romance"?
Review: This is the unlikely story of a hapless young woman abused by both her father and the course, ignorant man she was forced to marry. Their story starts out with the usual light conflict that is expected in Romance novels, but drags the reader throughthe heroine's endless humiliations and physical abuse because of her husband's very heavy-handed manner. There is no pleasure to see a young woman cowering at every turn, but is it especially repulsive to see her accepting this abuse as her fault, and still trying to please this beast. There is far too much spousal abuse in our culture, and to read a "Romance" where such brutality is condoned is very upsetting.
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