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Title: Awful- even to a Robards fan
Review: I enjoy Karen Robards' books. They're fluff-- airplane, swimming pool reading. That's what I bought this one for. My expectations are for entertainment, not brilliant fiction or even a gripping storyline.But I think it's one of the worst of Robards' I've ever read. The plot is appalling-- an 18 year old girl is seduced by her 28 year old step father. (Alright, the husband of her stepmother, but still) Yes, yes, they fall in love. It is a romance novel, after all. But I still found myself astonished that this was an acceptable relationship and I'm very disappointed in this one. There is a disconcerting incestuous overtone, that simply wasn't good reading. So much so, that I won't resell this one or even put it on my bookshelf. It's going right into the garbage can. I won't be buying any more Robards novels for a while.
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