Status Updates From Captive Mistress

poorly written. The style is stiff and instead of actually building, creating a story...things are just plopped out infront of you. Here is a plate of beans (rape) here is a bowl of applesauce (kindly doctoring friend). Nothing has supstance...just there. This heroine was beatten for years..so would have suffered injuries...physical and emotional that would have scared her. yet she is a perfect beauty. She doesn't pu

Putting this on hold while I determine if new indy author Olivia Wheeler does indeed write bodice rippers as she claims. Besides, my head cold is making me cranky and all the similarities to KEWs Flame and the Flower have me feeling like Im reading fan fiction. Fan fiction is cool as long as you do it for free, but this was published. Hopefully will feel more objective soon.

Wow! The influence of The Flame and the Flower is apparent. Not a complaint, because I love that book. Interested to see how this one diverges. Christy is definitely less timid than Heather, but so far Michael reminds me a lot of Brandon. Will have to post some comparative quotes later.

Still trying to figure out the captain. Is he a gentleman who happens to be a merchant seaman or is he more of the pirate sort. I'm leaning toward the former, because he'd never make it as a pirate on Stars network's Black Sails. Chick definitely wouldn't still be a virgin living in a closet instead of in the captain's room being debauched ten ways to Sunday.

Still trying to figure out the captain. Is he a gentleman who happens to be a merchant seaman or is he more of the pirate sort. I'm leaning toward the former, because he'd never make it on Stars network's Black Sails. Chick definitely wouldn't still be a virgin living in a closet instead of in the captain's room.

Ugh, still boring. I'm not used the hero being an actual, legitimate ship's captain, rather than, say, a pirate captain. He just has too many morals for my taste, and he's too nice. And the cover is pissing me off too. I think the heroine is actually a whore, because only a prostitute would wear that much eye shadow.