Juliana's review
Lie by Moonlight
by Amanda Quick
Juliana's review
Lie by Moonlight by Amanda Quick
Juliana's review
rating:
bookshelves:
romance
This was recommended to me, and I'd decided I ought to know more than nothing about the romance genre, so here we go.
The good:
-I did not at any point want to throw the book across the room.
-There was at least some explanation for why Victorian characters had suspiciously modern attitudes towards sex and gender (and let's face it, traditional Victorian morals are pretty squicky.)
-I was kind of amused at times.
The bad:
-Definitely many *eyeroll* moments
-What, you think there was realistic justification for the suspiciously modern attitudes?
-The mystery plot. Lame.
-The sex. Boring. I suspect this will be a problem in this genre, as so far what I've seen falls into one of two categories: Bad, flowery, euphemistic sex, or bad, flowery, explicit sex. This was somewhere in between.
If I do decide I want to know more about the genre, I suspect I'll collect a list of things that are either "you should really read this to understand what it's all about," ...more
The good:
-I did not at any point want to throw the book across the room.
-There was at least some explanation for why Victorian characters had suspiciously modern attitudes towards sex and gender (and let's face it, traditional Victorian morals are pretty squicky.)
-I was kind of amused at times.
The bad:
-Definitely many *eyeroll* moments
-What, you think there was realistic justification for the suspiciously modern attitudes?
-The mystery plot. Lame.
-The sex. Boring. I suspect this will be a problem in this genre, as so far what I've seen falls into one of two categories: Bad, flowery, euphemistic sex, or bad, flowery, explicit sex. This was somewhere in between.
If I do decide I want to know more about the genre, I suspect I'll collect a list of things that are either "you should really read this to understand what it's all about," ...more
