A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)

by Judith McNaught

“Open your eyes, little one.”

Uuuugh. Not a good line to seduce the 17 year old you just coerced to get into bed with you in exchange for what she thought was her sister’s life.

Twisted into knots of desire, his heart beating painfully, he eased himself into her until he finally encountered the fragile barrier.

This makes me laugh when romance books from the 80s and 90s made it seem like the hymen is painful when it breaks - ah, it’s not the flimsy membrane and is usually already broken by the time a woman has sex for the first time, it’s shoving a large appendage into a very narrow space that stretches but PAINFULLY.

’twas merely that I am a woman and therefore destined for other things.” Or other uses, Royce thought with anger on her behalf.

Anger in her behalf??!!! YOU are the one who used her that way!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡

she would come to him today. She wanted to try to explain, and to apologize for, her overemotional and unjust reaction to his attempt to send her to a cloister.

Honestly, the fathers in these books do way more damage than the love interests, who are arrogant jerks. But the fathers are cold-hearted bastards who do not love their daughters. And Yet they are always forgiven: 🤮