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Title: Really Bad
Review: This book was, in a word, horrible. I had heard really great things about it--that it was a classic, one of the best romances ever written. It's not. This book is really about abuse of a woman by a man. I could buy that as a premise for a romance, maybe, if something changes by the end. Maybe if there was some character development. But the only thing that happens is that the heroine and hero somehow discover that they love each other. He still treats her badly and apparently she is able to overlook that. He never feels the least bit remorseful or ever realizes that his poor and abusive treatment of his wife is wrong. And for the life of me, I can't figure out why he loves her either, because she's so boring and blah. Stay away from this book. It's worse than just bad. I came away from it with the negative, vaguely queasy feeling that I had somehow contributed to the degradation of women just by reading it.
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