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Title: A Rip Off About Rape
Review: This is a direct and unmistakeable imitation of the far superior "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon. For that alone, it deserves the lowest rating. But the romance between the protagonists is quite disturbing. Their first sexual encounter is one in which the heroine, Grace St. John, is fully expecting to be killed by the hero, Black Niall. While she waits for a fatal sword stab, Niall gets her on her knees and rapes her. I'm sure others will quibble about the term, but when the woman is literally expecting to be gutted and is forcefully put into a position for penetration without her consent, it is rape. Forced climax does NOT absolve it of that term, any more than it would for a man. Suffice it to say, I did not think this book was good.
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